I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
—James Boswell
Topics: Choice
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 kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
—James Boswell
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship
I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.
—James Boswell
Topics: Journalists, Journalism
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.
—James Boswell
Topics: Humor, Wit
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
—James Boswell
Topics: Humor, Wit
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