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  • Adam Ferguson Mankind have always wandered or settled, agreed or quarrelled, in troops and companies.
    Source: An Essay on the History of Civil Society I, III
    Adam Ferguson
    Scottish philosopher and historian (1723 - 1816)
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  • Joseph Stalin Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ;and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
    Joseph Stalin
    Sovjet politician (1878 - 1953)
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  • Victor Hugo Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Martin Luther King Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Sydney Smith Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Flannery O'Connor Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Horace Mann Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Herford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Basil of Caesarea Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • J. B. Priestley Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Jim Backus Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
    Jim Backus
    American radio, television, film, and voice (1913 - 1989)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Bruce Barton Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Francis Bacon Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Robert A. Cook Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.
    Robert A. Cook
    American Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor (1912 - 1991)
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  • Robertson Davies Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Walter Lippmann Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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