Quotes Library

April 27, 2025

A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English poet, critic, lexicographer, in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) 1770, Jay p.197

Do the poor inspire compassion, or are they just annoying? Shiftless scammers?

Johnson puts it well, and simply so.

August 7, 2025

7 months ago

Welfare became a term of opprobrium—a contentious, often vindictive area of political conflict

May 23, 2025

9 months ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

March 5, 2025

12 months ago

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion

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