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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."
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."
"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead."
"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"Optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the unspeakable sufferings of humanity."
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
"The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey."
"[A]t bottom it is the same with traveling as with reading. How often do we complain that we cannot remember one thousandth part of what we read! In both cases, however, we may console ourselves with the reflection that the things we see and read make an impression on the mind before they are forgotten, and so contribute to its formation and nurture."
"The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see."
"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."
"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."
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