"What an insignificant life is this which I…" — James Boswell
"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
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56 Quotes by James Boswell
James Boswell has 56 quotes on this site.
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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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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must…
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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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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination…
— John Adams
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I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I…
— John le Carre
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
— Jimmy Carter
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We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the…
— Hugo Chavez
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To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Individual glory is insignificant when compared to achieving victory as a team.
— Dot Richardson
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei,…
— Arthur Koestler
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
— Seneca the Younger
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The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its…
— Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
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Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the…
— Paulo Freire
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It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I…
— Anne Frank
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