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I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another.


Samuel Johnson


#boswell #corrupt #corruption #freedom #johnson

I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.]


Arthur Conan Doyle


#boswell #chronicler #john-watson #sherlock-holmes #sidekicks

It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of the man who wrote the biography of Boswell.


Nathanael West


#boswell #dreams






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