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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, LL.D (1791)

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He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

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I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

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The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.

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Such groundless fears will arise in the mind, before it has resumed its vigour after sleep!

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