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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
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"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man."
"The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means."
"The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased."
"The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross."
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
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