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"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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"If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures."
"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."
"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
"To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"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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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."
"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."
"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't."
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