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"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
"A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind."
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"It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world."
"Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult."
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
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