Samuel Johnson Quote

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.


The Rambler: In Four Volumes (ed. 1761)


Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.