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In this waywere gathered the materials out of which was afterwards constructed themost interesting biographical work in the world. Soon after the club began to exist, Johnson formed a connection lessimportant indeed to his fame, but much more important to his happiness, than his connection with Boswell. Henry Thrale, one of the most opulentbrewers in the kingdom, a man of sound and cultivated understanding, rigid principles, and liberal spirit, was married to one of thoseclever, kind-hearted, e...ngaging, vain, pert young women, who areperpetually doing or saying what is not exactly right, but who, do orsay what they may, are always agreeable. In 1765 the Thrales becameacquainted with Johnson; and the acquaintance ripened fast intofriendship. They were astonished and delighted by the brilliancy ofhis conversation. They were flattered by finding that a man so widelycelebrated, preferred their house to any other in London. Even thepeculiarities which seemed to unfit him for civilised society, hisgesticulations, his rollings, his puffings, his mutterings, the strangeway in which he put on his clothes, the ravenous eagerness with whichhe devoured his dinner, his fits of melancholy, his fits of anger, hisfrequent rudeness, his occasional ferocity, increased the interest whichhis new associates took in him.
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