A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Tag: Samuel Johnson
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
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.
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.