As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to c…

Samuel Johnson
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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. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for Sept. 1783)
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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. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for Sept. 1783)

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