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I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Fanaticism] If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Friendship] If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our house let us count our spoons. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Character] In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Oaths] Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Help] It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one-half of mankind brave and one-half cowards, the brave would be always being the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Peace] Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Knowledge] Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil where he is known. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Traveling] Marriages would in general be as happy, if not more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Matrimony] Much may be made of a Scotchman if he be caught young. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Education] No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Authorship] Of a thousand shavers, two do not shave so much alike as not to be distinguished. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Barber] Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Patriotism] Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Conversation] Sir, a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Preaching] Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves: but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Equality] That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Thought] The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Applause] The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Mind] There are two things which I am confident I can do very well; one one is an introduction to any literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Authorship] There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern of inn. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Inns] This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Wit] Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Conversation] Was ever poet so trusted before! - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Poets] Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. - Boswell's Life of Johnson [Oxen] Displaying page 33 of 37 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 [33] 34 35 36 37
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