Philip Guedalla - History repeats itself. Historians...

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Philip Guedalla

Biography

Author Profession: Historian

Nationality: English

Born: March 12, 1889

Died: December 16, 1944

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Each, Historians, History, History Repeats Itself, Itself, Other, Repeat, Repeats

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Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Philip Guedalla

Success Great Greatness Courteous

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

Philip Guedalla

Will Beat Any Stigma

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Philip Guedalla

People Jump Who Conclusions

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

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Game Unfair Hunting Like

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

Philip Guedalla

Truth People Telling The Truth About

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

Philip Guedalla

Saying Will Beat Old

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

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Success Man Moment More

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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History Fiction Biography Very

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

Work Simple Three Always

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