Repressing Colloquial Barbarisms #5
From the Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 1791
He had an abhorrence of affectation. Talking of old Mr Langton he said,
'Sir, he has no grimace, no gesticulation, no bursts of admiration on trivial occasions; he never embraces you with an overacted cordiality....Depend upon it, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for when there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it'.
He had an abhorrence of affectation. Talking of old Mr Langton he said,
'Sir, he has no grimace, no gesticulation, no bursts of admiration on trivial occasions; he never embraces you with an overacted cordiality....Depend upon it, that if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for when there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse to the mention of it'.
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