Saturday, February 15, 2020

Daily Dose

From Boswell's London Journal, 1762-1763, by James Boswell, edited by Frederick A. Pottle

ALL OVER

"I told him all was now over. I certainly won by this. For to have broke with them just now would have given them opportunity to make me ridiculous; and if I find it convenient, it is easy to get out of acquaintance (or rather familiarity) with them. For they are very agreeable acquaintances. But when a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarities."

From Thursday, 17 February, 1763

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