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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
James Boswell
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James Boswell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1740
Born: October 18
Died: 1795
Died: May 19
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Edinburgh
Scotland
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
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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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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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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
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We must take our friends as they are.
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I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.
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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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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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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
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As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.
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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.
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That favorite subject, Myself.
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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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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.
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In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
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My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well but you are surprised to see it done at all.
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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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