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Boswell is the first proverb

 Boswell is the first of biographers
  Thomas Macaulay

 Boswell is the first of biographers
  Thomas Macaulay

 Tim is a planner and he is extremely organized, as is Mayor Boswell, but Boswell refuses to take 'no' for an answer.

 Rebecca was a busy liar in her distinguished old age, reinventing her past for gullible biographers.

 Biographers, we're weird. For whatever reasons of conditioning, our temporal sense is different from other people's, and I knew it would take 10 years. And that's just the way it is.

 Audubon biographers and scholars [have noted], by various euphemisms, that all great men have their flaws, and their man's principal flaw was that he, well, he lied a lot.

 It's not easy [without Boswell], but I think we'll be fine.

 Boswell Wide Awake.

 BOSWELL: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . . JOHNSON: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.
  Samuel Johnson

 Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.
  Samuel Johnson

 If we believe that he (Jesus Christ) really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers father upon him, and admit the misconstructions, interpolations, and theorizations of the fathers of the early and the
  Thomas Jefferson

 Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.
  Samuel Johnson

 Boswell's a complete player. He plays defense, he can handle the ball, he can shoot the threes, he can drive -- he can do it all. He's the key.

 I don't think it's too early to lay that on him, ... He has the skill set to compete against the best in the world. To join figureheads like Perdita (Felicien) and Mark (Boswell) ... that would be fantastic. The more we have as Canadians, the better off we will be.

 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
  James Boswell


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