"No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys;……" — 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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James Boswell
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56 Quotes by 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…
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said…
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not,…
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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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…
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily…
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments,…
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on…
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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to…
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.…
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The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish…
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
— Samuel Johnson
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But above everything, drink wines with love. They are like women - different, mysterious, fickle. And each wine has to…
— Luigi Veronelli
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... I think Finance is the one that everybody aspires to, who's serious in politics, because that's where the real…
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