"Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation."

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I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

— Carolyn Wells