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«Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.»
«Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind»
«Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself - except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence»
Author: Storm Jameson | About: Mankind | Keywords: The Animal
«Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race»
«Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.»
«Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.»
«Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | About: Mankind | Keywords: impudence, knaves, thrive
«By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever»
«Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.»
«Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will»

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