The value of every story depends on its being true. A story… - James Boswell

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The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of an individual or of human nature in general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing.

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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh. He is best remembered for his biography of the English literary figure Samuel Johnson, one of contemporaries, which the modern Johnsonian critic Harold Bloom claimed is the greatest biography written in the English language.

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Alternative Names: James Boswell I • James, I Boswell

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[Dr. Johnson thought that] Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Johnson is dead. Let us go to the next best — there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

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