Boswell Foundation

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“I have Johnsonised the land; and I trust they will not only talk, but think, Johnson.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)

“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality. Our very intellect shall be macadamized, as it were,—its foundation broken into fragments for the wheels of travel to roll over.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)