“Autobiography—that unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”

— Philip Guedalla

"Biographers and Their Victims," http://books.google.com/books?id=yCgoAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Autobiography+that+unrivalled+vehicle+for+telling+the+truth+about+other+people%22&pg=PA136#v=onepage Debate with A. G. Gardiner at The London School of Economics (June 1923) http://archive.org/stream/yeaandnay00anonuoft#page/136/mode/2up

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British historical writer 1889–1944

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