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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, th...

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop th...

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My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and p...

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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 ...

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The Life of Samuel Johnson

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James Boswell

Lawyer

Born: 1740-10-29

Died: 1795-05-19

James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh. He is best remembered for his biography of the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, one of contemporaries, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.More