"The Life of Samuel Johnson" Quotes
"The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell is a detailed and intimate biography that chronicles the life, character, and achievements of the renowned English writer and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
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Quotes
A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.
A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
