White lies, polite lies [ Reading & Writing / Communication ]
… myself up into artificial Spirits: one Day […] when I was vexed & frighted out of my Wits [ … ] I remember Boswell dining here: we [Johnson and herself] talked, we rattled, we flashed, we made extempore Verses, we did so much that at …
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