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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
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"We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners."
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"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
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"Our true nationality is mankind."
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"I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know."
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"According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin."
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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."
Nature
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
Man
"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
Perception
"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
Death
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
People
"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."
Mind
"Life is a school of probability."
Life
"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."
Man
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."
Courage
"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."
Man
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