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Type: Historian Quotes Category: English Historian Quotes Date of Birth: March 12, 1889 Date of Death: December 16, 1944 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Philip Guedalla Related Authors: Edward Gibbon Thomas B. Macaulay Anita Brookner John Keegan James Anthony Froude G. M. Trevelyan Henry James Sumner Maine John Acton |
Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
Philip Guedalla Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma. Philip Guedalla Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium. Philip Guedalla Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. Philip Guedalla Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success. Philip Guedalla History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. Philip Guedalla People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them. Philip Guedalla Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment. Philip Guedalla The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. Philip Guedalla |
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