Famous James Boswell Quotations

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"A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all."
by James Boswell
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
by James Boswell
"I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
by James Boswell
"The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none."
by James Boswell
"To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive."
by James Boswell
"But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.'"
by James Boswell
"Friendship,"
by James Boswell
"I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate."
by James Boswell
"Having found a large dead cat so heavy that he could not move it after several efforts, 'Come,' said he, (throwing down the pole,) 'you shall ..."
by James Boswell
"I had now formed a clear and settled opinion, that the people of America were well warranted to resist a claim that their fellow-subjects in t..."
by James Boswell
"I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their ..."
by James Boswell
"I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the rope having fi..."
by James Boswell
"My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would ..."
by James Boswell
"We should be careful never to imagine, that the wedding-day is the burial of love, but that in reality love then begins its best life; and if ..."
by James Boswell
"What sunk me very low was the sensation that I was precisely as when in wretched low spirits thirty years ago, without any addition to my char..."
by James Boswell


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