All James Boswell Quotes
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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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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 suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
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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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell
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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
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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I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
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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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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