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Often appears with: truth in personal narration · reason and the intellect · pleasure, pain, and the good life · language, naming, and meaning · knitting as amusement · contentment
Usually: argument (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
“Women have a great advantage that they may take up with little things, without disgracing themselves: a man cannot, except with fiddling.” James Boswell, Boswell's Life of Johnson · observation
Boswell breakfasts and converses with Johnson on contentment, restless schemes, and “small things,” then discusses writing style and truth in narration, with Johnson urging a friend to stop spreading falsehoods.
is right to tell one man of such a handsome thing, which has been said of him by another. It tends to increase benevolence.' JOHNSON. 'Undoubtedly it is right, Sir.' On Tuesday, April 7, I breakfasted with him at his house. He said, 'nobody was content.' I mentioned to him a respectable person in Scotland whom he knew; and I asserted, that I really believed he was always content. JOHNSON. 'No, Sir, he is not content…