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    Hesketh Pearson

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    A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer. ↗


    — Hesketh Pearson

    #been #bring #changes #character #characteristics

    Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ↗


    — Hesketh Pearson

    #fact #in fact #learned #man #misquotation

    Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ↗


    — Hesketh Pearson

    #never #only #quotations

    There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches. ↗


    — Hesketh Pearson

    #except #rich #riches #stronger #than

    When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse. ↗


    — Hesketh Pearson

    #enough #know #old #old enough #people






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    A Postscript (1950)
    The Last Actor-Managers (1950)
    Essays of Oscar Wilde (1950) editor
    Dizzy; the life and personality of Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield (1951)
    The Man Whistler (1952)- (James McNeill Whistler)
    Walter Scott: His Life and Personality (1954)
    Beerbohm Tree: His Life & Laughter (1956)
    Gilbert: His Life and Strife (1957)- (W S Gilbert)
    Johnson and Boswell: the Story of Their Lives (1958)
    Merry Monarch the Life and Likeness of Charles II (1960)
    The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) Marrying Americans (US)
    Lives of the Wits (1962)
    Henry of Navarre (1963)
    Hesketh Pearson By Himself (1965) autobiography
    Extraordinary People (1965) biographical essays
    Charles II: His Life and Likeness
    About Kingsmill (Co-author with Malcolm Muggeridge - regarding Hugh Kingsmill)


    Notes. In England he was the most popular and successful biographer of his time. They had a son Henry Car Hesketh Pearson who was killed in 1939 in the Spanish Civil War.

    He is known mainly for his popular biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time in terms of commercial success. Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (20 February 1887 – 9 April 1964) was a British actor theatre director and writer.

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