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James Boswell

"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself." — James Boswell
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James Boswell

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over." — James Boswell
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James Boswell

"Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, (Johnson) replied, "Why, my Lord, I'll tell you what is become of it; it is gone into the city to look for a fortune" — James Boswell
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"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything." — James Boswell
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"I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home." — James Boswell
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"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion." — James Boswell
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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 f" — James Boswell
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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding." — James Boswell
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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." — James Boswell
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"I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate." — James Boswell
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"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good" — James Boswell
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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it" — James Boswell
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James Boswell

"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it." — James Boswell
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James Boswell

"Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand" — James Boswell
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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
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"I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson" — James Boswell
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"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am" — James Boswell
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"We must take our friends as they are." — James Boswell
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"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am." — James Boswell
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"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself." — James Boswell
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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation." — James Boswell
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