Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

The Crimean War is one of the bad jokes of history.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.

I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.

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

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.

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.

The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.

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