James Boswell Quotes - Page 4

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• After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.

  James Boswell

  Dream, Sleep, Thoughtful

  James Boswell (2001). “Boswell's Edinburgh Journals 1767-1786”, Mercat Press Books

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• There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.

  James Boswell

  Prejudice, Strange, Quotations

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• I find I journalize too tediously. Let me try to abbreviate.

  James Boswell

  Trying, Journalism, Let Me

  James Boswell, Marlies K. Danziger (1989). “Boswell, the great biographer, 1789-1795”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, and God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?

  James Boswell

  Brother, Father, Son

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• I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of that fragrant leaf than Johnson.

  James Boswell

  Infusion, Leafs, Johnson

  "Life of Johnson, Book I".

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