Top 60 James Boswell Quotes (2024 Update)
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James Boswell Quote: “Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.”

51. “Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.”

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James Boswell Quote: “When we know exactly all a man’s views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.”

52. “When we know exactly all a man’s views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.”

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James Boswell Quote: “It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.”

53. “It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.”

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James Boswell Quote: “When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.”

54. “When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.”

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James Boswell Quote: “My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity – a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.”

55. “My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity – a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.”

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James Boswell Quote: “I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.”

56. “I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.”

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James Boswell Quote: “I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.”

57. “I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.”

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James Boswell Quote: “As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.”

58. “As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.”

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James Boswell Quote: “The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.”

59. “The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up.”

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James Boswell Quote: “Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.”

60. “Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.”

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James Boswell Quote: “Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.”

61. “Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.”

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James Boswell Quote: “There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.”

62. “There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.”

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James Boswell Quote: “I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.”

63. “I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence.”

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James Boswell Quote: “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 fit.”

64. “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 fit.”

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James Boswell Quote: “But we find that war is followed by no general good whatever. The power, the glory, or the wealth of a very few may be enlarged. But the people in general, upon both sides, after all the sufferings are passed, pursue their ordinary occupations, with no difference from their former state. The evils therefore of war... are a mere loss without any advantage...”

65. “But we find that war is followed by no general good whatever. The power, the glory, or the wealth of a very few may be enlarged. But the people in general, upon both sides, after all the sufferings are passed, pursue their ordinary occupations, with no difference from their former state. The evils therefore of war... are a mere loss without any advantage...”

— James Boswell

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