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James Boswell
Scottish
Lawyer
About the author
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Now
#Life
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#May
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#May
#Conversation
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,
Scottish
Lawyer
#May
#Conversation
#Wit
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Wit
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Hate
#Mankind
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Character
#Practice
#May
#Man
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Understanding
#Argument
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
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,
Scottish
Lawyer
#World
#Power
#Delight
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Man
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Love
#Nothing
#Friends
#Winning
#Worth
#Laughter
We must take our friends as they are.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#Friends
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell,
Scottish
Lawyer
#May
#Man
#Friend