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James Boswell

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I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.


— James Boswell


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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


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It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.


— James Boswell


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We must take our friends as they are.


— 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 portion.


— James Boswell


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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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