Memoirs of a Clubman (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Clubman It has often occurred to me that from the very force of their genius, most of the world´s successful geniuses become rather uninteresting. They leap to the front, and stay there. Then comes the adulation of the world and their genius dies. By taking it for granted, they kill it. If they only realised the fact (they seldom do), they were so much more interesting when they were nobodies, when they were rather looked down upon by their fellow-creatures. In the fulness of time they die, and someone rakes together all the things which ever happened to them, all the formal letters accepting dinner invitations, and, worst of all, gives a minute account of certain problematically respectable but indubitably dull people who were unfortunate enough to be either their ancestors or their family connections. I once had the honour of being invited by a Ladies´ Club to meet the guest of the afternoon. I never knew her name, for all that I could gather about her was that she was the famous Mr. Blanks mother-in-law. Mr. Blank is still prominently before the public, but he has had so many mothers-in-law that I remain in doubt as to which of them I met. He is in the prime of life, however, and - one never knows - I may yet have the felicity of meeting some more of them. The one I did meet was certainly more interesting than Mr. Blank, though she admitted to me that she was very much frightened and had not known of the reflected honours in store for her. Why write these reminiscences? Why inflict my own experiences on a long-suffering public? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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