James Boswell - Company Quotes

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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

James Boswell

Boswell is pleasant and gay,
For frolic by nature designed;
He heedlessly rattles away
When company is to his mind.

James Boswell

I have never yet exerted ambition in rising in the state. But sure I am, no man has made his way better to the best company.

James Boswell