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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual — namely to You. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892

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Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. – James Russell Lowell

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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written. – Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924

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