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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."

"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."

"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."

"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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