The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

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I believe it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the only disadvantage under which they labour: it is also their misfortune, that what is uncommon is rarely, if ever, believed, and what is obvious we are apt to turn from with disgust, and to charge the writer with impertinence. People generally think those memoirs only worthy to be read or remembered which abound in great or striking events, those, in short, which in a high degree excite either admiration or pity: all others they consign to contempt and oblivion.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African · Olaudah Equiano

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