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Meanness Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold…
- To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at least,…
- As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it
More Meanness Quotes
- Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln
- Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind. — Walter Bagehot
- It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the… — Mary Wollstonecraft
- Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want… — George Bernard Shaw
- False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself… — Jean de la Bruyere
- What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson
- Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt