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12. Turk's Head Conversations (22 July 1763)

You could never shut Dr. Johnson up, particularly at the The Turk's Head Coffee House. It was just off the Strand, near Covent Garden and he found "better entertainment there" than at the Mitre. All aspects of life drew his attention. He loved, he said, the acquaintance of young people because " ... young men have more virtue than old men... I love the young dogs of this age: they have more wit and humour and knowledge of life than we had. But then the dogs are not so good scholars..." He insisted that men recognised social status, those "fixed, invariable external rules of distinction of rank, which create no jealousy, as they are allowed to be accidental." He claims to have remarked to one woman that "I was quite a convert to her republican system, and thought mankind all upon a footing; and I begged her that her footman might be allowed to dine with us. She has never liked me since". When Boswell complained of his hereditary melancholy, "He advised me to have constant occupation of mind, to take a good deal of exercise, and to live moderately; especially to shun drinking at night." Melancholy people, he said, "are apt to fly to intemperance, which gives a momentary relief but sinks the soul much lower in misery." There is no record that Boswell followed this counsel.

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Chris Hodgkins London, UK

Chris Hodgkins MBA FCIM raised in Cardiff. Toured the UK and Europe and appeared at the Sacramento Jazz Festival in the States. With his own band he made a number of television and radio appearances. Relocated to London to play professionally. In 1985, Director of Jazz Services Ltd. Retired in 2014 took to the road, the radio and the recording studio. ... more

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