Boswell

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“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 teazed him with fanciful apprehensions of unhappiness. A moth having fluttered round the candle, and burnt itself, he laid hold of this little incident to admonish me; saying, with a sly look, and in a solemn but quiet tone, “That creature was its own tormentor, and I believe its name was BOSWELL.””
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“My mind was, as it were, strongly impregnated with the Johnsonian aether.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)