A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell
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
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
James Boswell
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
James Boswell
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
James Boswell
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
James Boswell
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
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell
We must take our friends as they are.
James Boswell
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
James Boswell
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