James Boswell Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
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“Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion.”
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“The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.”
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“There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.”
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“Boswell: But, Sir is it not somewhat singular that you should happen to have Cocker's Arithmetic about you on your journey? Dr. Johnson: Why, Sir if you are to have but one book with you upon a journey, let it be a book of science. When you read through a book of entertainment, you know it, and it can do no more for you; but a book of science is inexhaustible.”
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“Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom add what will equal the generous first growths of our youth, yet friendship becomes insensibly old in much less time than is commonly imagined, and not many years are required to make it mellow and pleasant.”
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“I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.”
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“Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.”
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“Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.”
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“One must be strict even in little things.”
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“Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.”
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