"Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know."

-- Marvin Mudrick

#Friendship Quotes #Beautiful Quotes #Wise Quotes

“All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.”
“Dolls are like small dead people.”
“All David Blaine is is a good-looking magician.”
“What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?”
“The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive.”

Source : "LePage slams newspapers, revs up GOP faithful during Auburn rally" By Scott Thistl, bangordailynews.com. August 28, 2014.
“I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”

Source : Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.
“The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.”

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