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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
James Boswell
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James Boswell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1740
Born: October 18
Died: 1795
Died: May 19
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The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.
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It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it but all belief is for it.
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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
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In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may smile, should recollect that there are moments which admit of being soothed only by trifles.
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After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.
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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
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Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.
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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
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In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.
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[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
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When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.
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If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.
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I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
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Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm.
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