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Notoriously and self-confessedly intemperate, Boswell shared with Johnson a
huge appetite for life and threw equal energy into recording its every
aspect in minute but telling detail. This irrepressible Scotsman was
'always studying human nature and making experiments', and the marvelously
vivacious Journals he wrote daily furnished him with first-rate material
when he came to write his biography.