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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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson

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I am not a human being; I am a human becoming. – Author Unknown

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Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied. – Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897

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Man, when he is merely what he seems to be, is almost nothing. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. – David Herbert Lawrence, White Peacock, 1911

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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. – Lewis Mumford, in Anne Chisholm, Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with E

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