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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson
Inspirational, Success, Respect

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Samuel Johnson
Respect, Doe, Increase

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.

Samuel Johnson
Respect, Selfish, Men
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.416

Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.

Samuel Johnson
Respect, Giving, Attention
Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Samuel Johnson
Respect, Giving, Advantage
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1786). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.32

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Samuel Johnson
Respect, Men, Giving
Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.119

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