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“BOSWELL: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it . . . JOHNSON: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Boswell: It is impossible to refute it - Johnson, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, answered, 'I refute it thus”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Boswell: That, Sir, was great fortitude of mind. Johnson: No, Sir, stark insensibility.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“BOSWELL: Sir, you observed one day . . . that a man is never happy for the present, but when he is drunk. Will you not add, - or when driving rapidly in a post-chaise? JOHNSON: No, Sir, you are driving rapidly from something, or to something.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Boswell is the first of biographers”
Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes (English Historian, 1800-1859)
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“Boswell: "Pray, Sir, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in the world, with any one of whom a man may be as happy, as with any one woman in particular?" Johnson: "Ay, Sir, fifty thousand”
James Boswell quotes (Scottish Biographer, 1740-1795)

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“Boswell: Is not the Giant's Causeway worth seeing? Johnson: Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Well, (said he), we had a good talk. BOSWELL: Yes, Sir, you tossed and gored several persons.”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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