My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
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In my fourteenth year I had gone up to London for the first time, to see as many of the sights as could be got into a fortnight.
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The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
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I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
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