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 (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (1783)
In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)
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