Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender
The preface is the most important part of a book. Even reviewers read a preface.