Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it…
Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.


James Boswell Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 16 May 1763

Samuel Johnson Quotes

Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it… Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.

Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it… Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.

Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it… Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.

Boswell: I do indeed come from Scotland, but I cannot help it… Johnson: That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help.