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.

Samuel Johnson

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