“The trouble with the specialists in what mankind does or does not do is that they don’t get around enough with mankind.” — Robert Benchley, “Those Dicta,” My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew
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“I flatter myself that I am a member of that group which is known, euphemistically, as mankind.” — Robert Benchley, “Those Dicta,” My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew
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“The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.” — Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
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“If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.” — James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
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“Our affections divide us. We strike roots in immediate time and space, and fall in love with our locality, the customs and the language in which we were brought up. Intelligence unites us with mankind, by leading us in sympathy to other times, other places, other customs.” — John Erskine, The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent
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“We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.” — Walter Savage Landor
“We must not indulge in unfavourable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe that they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.” — Walter Savage Landor, “Barrow and Newton,” Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of Literary Men
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