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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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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson

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God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Man — a being in search of meaning. – Plato

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It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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