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"To govern mankind, one must not overrate them."
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"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
"Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured."
"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."
"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."
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."
"Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others."
"The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it."
"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."
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