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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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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
"The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity."
"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
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"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."
"No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves."
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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