Share this page: Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. -- Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. -- Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. -- Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson Share this page:

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