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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.

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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.

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


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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
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James Boswell

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Born: October 29, 1740
Died: May 19, 1795 (aged 54)
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