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James Boswell

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James Boswell

Birthname

AKA: James Boswell

Birthday: October 29, 1740

Educated At: University Of Edinburgh, University Of Glasgow, Utrecht University

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Diarist, Biographer, Writer, Lawyer

Spouse: Margaret Boswell

Total quotes: 1

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”

— James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson(Penguin Classics)

Tagged: Friendship, kindness

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