“I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.” ThinkingTwoBeautifulFriendshipLovelyCharmBeautiful WomenEnvious Book:The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition Source: The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition
“Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in science or literature or art. It is, by these private friendships, even more than by public performance, that the tradition of sound thinking and great doing is perpetuated from age to age.” ThinkingMenArtAgeBeautifulLiteratureSoundFriendshipIntellectualTraditionPerformancesRipeBrethren Book:The Intellectual Life Source: The Intellectual Life
“Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.” KnowsMenWritingKindTwoBeautifulFriendshipWiseSolitudeModelsOrdinaryEvidenceArgumentVictimLawyerFoolishRationalSubstanceGreat MenDiscourseJohnsonPlungeGreat WritersOrdinary ManDissolutionAfraid Of Death Author:Marvin Mudrick