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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."

"Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything."

"If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present."

"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
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"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

"While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be."

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
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