"No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him."

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Source : James Boswell (2012). “James Boswell's Life of Johnson: Manuscript Edition: |”, p.186, Edinburgh University Press

James Boswell

#Hero Quotes #Drinking Quotes #Wine Quotes

“In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.”
“You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think.”
“An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty”
“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
“The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for”
“Self-importance is a trap, because the moment we start to think that we actually matter is the moment when things start to go wrong. The truth is that you are supremely unimportant and nothing matters. All of man's striving is for nothing; all effort is wasted. To realize that everything is meaningless is tremendously liberating, since it then leaves us completely free to create our own lives and ignore the plans that others have for us.”
“I'm very opinionated.”

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