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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 76 total Samuel Johnson quotes in our collection. Samuel Johnson is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

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Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

Samuel Johnson

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

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Anybody who thinks of going to bed before 12 o'clock is a scoundrel.

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