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Philip Guedalla [1889-1944] English
Rank: 104
Historian, Writer


Philip Guedalla was a British barrister, and a popular historical and travel writer and biographer. His wit and epigrams are well-known, one example being "Even reviewers read a Preface," another being "History repeats itself.

History, Sports

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Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be. Sports
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. History
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Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
103
Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
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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.
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People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
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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.
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Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
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