5 Quotes & Sayings By James Boswell

James Boswell was an admirer of the Scottish poet James Thomson, author of "Rule Britannia". Boswell's first book, The Life of Samuel Johnson, was published in 1791. His life of the erudite and amusing Dr. Samuel Johnson was followed by biographies of James Boswell, Samuel Richardson, John Home, John Dryden, and Tobias Smollett.

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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 acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. James Boswell
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My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook. James Boswell
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. 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 kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. James Boswell