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"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

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

"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."

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

"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."

"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."

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
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"Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man."

"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."

"O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll."

"What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?"
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