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James Boswell
Scottish
Lawyer
Born:
Oct 29
,
1740
Died:
May 19
,
1795
Am
Conversation
Good
Man
May
Think
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We must take our friends as they are.
James Boswell
Our
Must
Take
Friends
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
James Boswell
Man
Possess
Some
Qualities
Himself
Friend
May
Which
Loves
Companion
Agreeable
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
James Boswell
Character
Man
Degree
Practice
Whatever
Besides
Some
Discovered
May
Anything
Forms
Choose
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
Good
World
Power
Virtuous
Would
Only
Delight
Make
Permitted
Were
Very
Species
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
James Boswell
Cake
Considerable
Journal
Like
Soup
May
Little
Page
Portable
Portion
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
James Boswell
Man
Happy
Miserable
Every
More
Than
Any
Who
Exquisitely
Every Man
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
James Boswell
Life
Insignificant
Leading
Am
Which
Now
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