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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.— Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming

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Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.— Samuel Johnson

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 Supers and Supermen

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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.— Walter Lippmann A Preface to Politics

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Writing biography is a one-way transaction in friendship.— Gay Wilson Allen in The New York Times

The biographer becomes the subject's closest ally and bitterest enemy.— Paula R. Backscheider Reflections on Biography

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.— Arthur Balfour The Observer

And kept his heart a secret to the end From all the picklocks of biographers.— Stephen Vincent Benét John Brown’s Bo

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20 Famous Shakespeare Quotes That Show the Bard’s Wit and Wisdom

Although they were written more than 400 years ago, the words of William Shakespeare remain timeless. Thanks in large part to the Bard of Avon’s ability to poetically capture universal human emotions with overarching themes that continue to remain relevant, many people continue to find his writing highly relatable.

In fact, many lines of his work live far outside high school English classrooms and trivia games. Shakespeare has been credited with either coining or at least popularizing myriad phrases that have become so ingrained into the everyday lexicon that many people aren’t even aware of their origins. Just a few examples: “love is blind” (The Merchant of Venice), “break the ice” (The Taming of the Shrew), “the be-all and the end-all” (Macbeth), and “wild-goose chase” (Romeo and Juliet).

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Aside from the pages of his tragedies and comedies, some of Shakespeare’s longer phrases and quotes continue to live on, frequently referenced throughout pop culture, emblazoned o