If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.


Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson (ed. 1807)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.