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Excerpt from Boswell's Life of Johnson, Vol. 5 of 6
April 17, being Good Friday, I waited on Johnson, as usual. I observed at breakfast that although it was a part' of his abstemious discipline on this most. Solemn fast to take no milk in his tea, yet when Mrs. Desmoulins inadvertently poured it in, he did not reject it. I talked of the strange indecision of mind, and imbecility in the common occurrences of life, which we may observe in some people. Johnson Why, sir, I am in the habit of getting others to do' things for me.' boswell: What, sir, have you that. Weakness?' johnson Yes, sir. But I always think afterwards I should have done better for myself.' I told him that at a gentleman's house where there was thought to be such extravagance or bad manage ment, that he was living much beyond his income, his lady had objected to the cutting of a pickled mango, and that I had taken an opportunity to ask the price of it, and found that it was only two shillings so here was a very poor saving. Johnson: 'sir, that is the blundering economy of a narrow understanding. It is stopping one hole in a sieve.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
