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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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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling."
"Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it be remembered, that the Quakers will have had the merit of its abolition."
"Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?"
"It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free."
"We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour."
"Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
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