modem biographical standards, for verifying their authenticity." Often, Boswell sought to "im-prove" Johnson's remarks. One of Johnson's best-known "sayings," as reported Boswell in the Life, is, "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is everything in London that life can afford." But according to BoswelTs own journal, all that Johnson actually said was, "You find no man wishes to leave it."
Boswell did not trouble himself to...