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"Sickness is mankind's greatest defect."
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."
"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."
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
"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."
"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
"Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will."
"Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones."
"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
"Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum."
"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
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