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Severity Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.
- Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favour, which an artful flatterer may gradually strengthen, till…
- All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.
- To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.
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- When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive. — Miguel de Cervantes
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- A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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