Quote#Wisdom
I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with…
Quote byStuart Dodgson Collingwood · 1870–1937
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898) p. ix..
English (original)
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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