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James Boswell

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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.


— James Boswell


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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 make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.


— James Boswell


#wine #life

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.


— James Boswell


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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.


— James Boswell


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What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!


— James Boswell


#i #i am #insignificant #leading #life

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.


— James Boswell


#companion #friend #himself #loves #man

A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.


— James Boswell


#among #conversation #excellencies #good #lively

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.


— James Boswell


#laughter #love #nothing #wear #winning

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.


— James Boswell


#besides #character #choose #degree #discovered

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.


— James Boswell


#argument #find #found #i #i am






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He passed the exam and became an advocate. However the abolitionist Thomas Clarkson records that by 1788 Boswell "after having supported the cause. After this Boswell spent most of the next two years travelling around the continent.

Watson who narrates the tales "I am lost without my Boswell. ". James Boswell 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795) was a lawyer diarist and author born in Edinburgh Scotland.

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