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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 happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. – Samuel Johnson

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[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

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The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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Why was man created on the last day? So that he can be told, when pride possesses him: God created the gnat before thee. – The Talmud

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability. – Oscar Wilde

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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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