Boswell

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“I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I am resolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“Here now do I find myself in the very sphere of magnificence. I live with princes, and a court is my home.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)