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"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

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

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

"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."

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

"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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"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
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