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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. - Gustave Fla

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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Man — a being in search of meaning. – Plato

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The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind. – Author Unknown

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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