Nevertheless, I see, with you, many reasons for regarding my autobiography as exceptional in its character, and as being, in some sense, naturally beyond the reach of those reproaches which honorable and sensitive minds dislike to incur.
He acknowledges the unique nature of his autobiography and its potential to avoid common criticisms.
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