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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 scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.
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If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.
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Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
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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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Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.
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In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
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Those who would extirpate evil from the world know little of human nature. As well might punch be palatable without souring as existence agreeable without care.
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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
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A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not fit.
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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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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.
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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.
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I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, He's your son, and God made him. He answered very harshly, If my sons are idiots, can I help it?
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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.
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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
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My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.
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