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"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."
"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind."
"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
"The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it."
"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
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