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I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy. - James Boswell Quotes

I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.

I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson - James Boswell Quotes

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

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am - James Boswell Quotes

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

Hate

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home. - James Boswell Quotes

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

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

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

Friends Or Friendship Quote of the Day

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not f - James Boswell Quotes

A Sceptick therefore, who because he finds that Truths are not universally received, doubts of their existence, is just as foolish as a man who should try large shoes upon little feet, and little shoes upon large feet, and finding that they did not f

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it - James Boswell Quotes

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

Wit

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

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

Character Quotes

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. - James Boswell Quotes

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

Quotes Understanding

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion. - James Boswell Quotes

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. - James Boswell Quotes

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Friends Or Friendship

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate. - James Boswell Quotes

I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

Journalism And Journalists

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 Quotes

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.

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 Quotes

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good

Power

Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, (Johnson) replied,

Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, (Johnson) replied, "Why, my Lord, I'll tell you what is become of it; it is gone into the city to look for a fortune

Boswell:

Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand

We must take our friends as they are. - James Boswell Quotes

We must take our friends as they are.

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

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

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

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

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