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Quotes by James Boswell

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
– James Boswell
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
– James Boswell
I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
– James Boswell
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
– James Boswell
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
– James Boswell
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
– James Boswell
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
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
– James Boswell
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
– James Boswell