on love and admiration, judgement and friendship
from boswell’s life of samuel johnson. quote found here.
Johnson: “Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, —judgement, to estimate things at their true value.”
I still insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgement, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Johnson: “No, Sir, admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgement and friendship like being enlivened.”
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