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Henry B. Adams

"The proper study of mankind is woman."

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

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

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

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

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

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"It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind."

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"The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind."

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"Our true nationality is mankind."

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"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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"Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best."

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"The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin."
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"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game."
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"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."
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"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."
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"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile."
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"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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"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
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"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
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"Morality is a private and costly luxury."
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