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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
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"At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done."
"He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life."
"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
"Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling..."
"Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases They fell because their peoples were not fit."
"I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."
"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""
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