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James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 30: Appearance—manners—habits. (search)
? Speaking of a certain well-known versifier, he said: He's a good fellow enough, but he can't write poetry, and if——had remained in Boston he would have killed him, he takes criticism so hard. As for me, I like a little opposition, I enjoy it, I can't understand the feeling of those thin-skinned people. I said I had been looking to see what books he preferred should lie on his table. I don't prefer, he said, I read no books. I have been trying for years to get a chance to read Wilhelm Meister, and other books. Was Goethe a dissolute man? To which I replied with a sweeping negative. This led the conversation to biography, and he remarked, How many wooden biographies there are about. They are of no use. There are not half a dozen good biographies in our language. You know what Carlyle says: I want to know what a man eats, what time he gets up, what color his stockings are? (His, on this occasion, were white, with a hole in each heel.) There's no use in any man's writing