Quotes by James Boswell

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• 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
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• I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

  ― James Boswell
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• I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

  ― James Boswell
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• There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

  ― James Boswell
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• 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 kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

  ― James Boswell
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Subjects in these quotes:

• excellencies
• conversation
• journalize
• abbreviate
• discovered
• friendship

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