Travel writingA lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides · 1773★ 4.4
Personal journal · Travel writingI am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides · 1773★ 3.6
BiographyBeing in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides · 1773★ 2.1
Personal journalThis is the most significant movement of all! There is a dignity, a majesty, a sublimity, in this last effort of the patriots, that I greatly admire. The people should never rise without doing something to be remembered, something notable and striking. This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important consequences, and so lasting, that I cannot but consider it as an epocha in history.John Adams1773★ 1.9
Travel writingWhy, sir, a man grows better humoured as he grows older. He improves by experience. When young, he thinks himself of great consequence, and every thing of importance. As he advances in life, he learns to think himself of no consequence, and little things of little importance; and so he becomes more patient, and better pleased.Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides · 1773★ 1.9
Personal journal · Travel writingMy definition of Man is, "a Cooking Animal." The beasts have memory, judgment, and all the faculties and passions of our mind, in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook... Man alone can dress a good dish; and every man whatever is more or less a cook, in seasoning what he himself eats.James Boswell1773★ 1.8
The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.Lord Chesterfield1773★ 1.8
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