Quote #149

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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  1. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the r…
  2. Sir, you have but two topicks, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
  3. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
  4. Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and pe…
  5. A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. A man when he gets into a higher sphere, into other…
  6. I [Boswell] was somewhat disappointed in finding that the edition of The English Poets, for which he was to write Prefaces and Lives, was n…
  7. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
  8. Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

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