To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
— Plutarch
Ignoring the lives of history's great figures keeps the mind permanently immature.
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale …
— Bulwer
I WAS having a great deal of trouble with my cell phone. A great deal of difficulty picking things up and hearing. It ke…
— Tony Evans
There is properly no history, only biography.
— Emerson
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
— Carlyle
You cannot open a book without learning something.
— Confucius
Biography in the per sonalandhomeaspectofhistory.
— Wilmott
