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Harold Acton [1904-1994] English
Rank: 104
Historian, Writer


Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton CBE was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete. He was born near Florence, Italy, of a prominent Anglo-Italian family.


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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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