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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/875/">Quotes by <em>Boswell, James</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

James Boswell (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck, Lord Auchinleck. He is best known as the biographer of Samuel Johnson. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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."

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

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"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

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"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."

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

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