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“I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.” quote by James Boswell — Download Open image

“I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.”

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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…

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“His OFELLUS in the Art of Living in London, I have heard him relate, was an Irish painter, whom he knew at Birmingham, and who had practiced his own precepts of economy for several years in the British capital. He assured Johnson, who, I suppose, was then meditating to try his fortune in London, but was apprehensive of the expence,…

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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.

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He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great…

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Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense…

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Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you…

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There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

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We must take our friends as they are.

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[A]s a lady adjusts her dress before a mirror, a man adjusts his character by looking at his journal.

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We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

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