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  • The art of Biography Is different from Geography. Geography is about Maps, But Biography is about Chaps.

    - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
      Biography for Beginners, introduction.

  • The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

    - Paul Frederick Bowles
      In the Sunday Times, 23  Jul.

  • If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.

    -William Lyon Mackenzie King
       Address to the House of Commons, Ottawa,18  Jun.

  • La Historia no se detiene nunca. D|a y noche su marcha es incesante. Querer detenerla ser|a como querer detener la Geograf|a. History never stops. It progresses ceaselessly day and night. Trying to stop it is like trying to stop Geography.

    - Augusto Monterroso
      Lo dema  s es silencio ('The Rest is Silence'),'Aforismos, dichos, etc'.

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