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Evelyn Beatrice Hall

(1868–1956) Writer

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Evelyn Beatrice Hall was a writer.

Quick Facts About Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Born: September 28, 1868
Died: April 13, 1956
Profession: Writer

About Evelyn Beatrice Hall

[Wikidata] English writer... | [Wikipedia] Evelyn Beatrice Hall, who wrote under the pseudonym S[tephen] G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Life of Voltaire, first published in 1903. She also wrote The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906.

Quotes by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation…

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Best year

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If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to…

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Be good

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It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

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Character

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A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

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Friendship

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The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

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Bias

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“I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.”

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Life

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All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been…

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Avalanches

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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and…

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Concealed

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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B.: This quote…

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Death

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He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human…

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Depth

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