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— Claire Tomalin"Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians."
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I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
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Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
— Joseph Addison
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