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"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
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"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

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"For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive."

"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment."
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