18 ordspråk av James Boswell

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James Boswell föddes den 29 Oktober 1740 och dog den 19 Mai 1795 - English biographer
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 A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself

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

 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

 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: "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

 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.

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

 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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


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