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Quote by Samuel Johnson
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man. – William Ralph Inge

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. – Albert Einstein

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