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James Boswell
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James Boswell
Age: 54 †
Born: 1740
Born: October 18
Died: 1795
Died: May 19
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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 have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.
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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
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My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian ether.
James Boswell
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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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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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.
James Boswell
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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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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[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.
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In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
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Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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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.
James Boswell
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
James Boswell
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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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
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My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.
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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.
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