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“History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.”

History Scales Biographies Large Scale

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”

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Author:Carter G. Woodson

“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”

History Essence Legacy Biographies

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“There is properly no history, only biography.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.”

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Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Memoirs are the backstairs of history.”

History Memoir Biographies

Author:George Meredith