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"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
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"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of 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."
"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."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity."
"A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law."
"By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins."
"Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience."
"When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live."
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