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An autobiography can be and most often is what Guide, the English Victorian novelist, now so forgotten, called a degrading form of vanity--which he refused to write despite the request of publishers. But it can also be a work of utility to those who read it, even of wise helpful instruction to the younger people who have to find their way through the difficulties of early life and the deceptions of later life.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 4 : Reflections On Specific Arts > # 60