“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”
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Source: London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: In Five Volumes
“What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!”
Source: James Boswell: As His Contemporaries Saw Him
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.”
“It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.”
Source: The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume
“It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.”
“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
Source: The Beauties of Goldsmith
