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James Boswell
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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