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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
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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."
"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."
"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."
"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
"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."
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."
"The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything."
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