A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
- James Boswell
May, Admitted, Smaller, Lively
A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
- James Boswell
Soup, Like, May, Journal
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
- James Boswell
Good, World, Very, Delight
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
- James Boswell
Leaf, More, Fragrant, Relish
I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
- James Boswell
Practice, Some, Discovered, Forms
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
- James Boswell
Wit, Smarts, Provoked, Lash
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
- James Boswell
Think, Admitted, Smaller, Conversation
A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- James Boswell
Some, Himself, Which, Qualities
What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!
- James Boswell
I Am, Leading, Which, Insignificant
It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.
- James Boswell
Miserable, More, Than, Exquisitely
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
- James Boswell
Love, Winning, Nothing, Laughter
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
- James Boswell
I Am, Find, Found, Argument
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- James Boswell
Think, Bad, I Think, Mankind
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