I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it,… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
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