Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
ATTRIBUTION:
Life of Johnson (Boswell).1Vol. vii. Chap. viii. 1779.
Note 1. From the London edition, 10 volumes, 1835.
Dr. Johnson, it is said, when he first heard of Boswell’s intention to write a life of him, announced, with decision enough, that if he thought Boswell really meant to write his life he would prevent it by taking Boswell’s!—Thomas Carlyle: Miscellanies, Jean Paul Frederic Richter. [back]
