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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. – Mark Twain

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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. – Hermann Hesse

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I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. – George Washington

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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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