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The proper study of mankind is woman. - Henry Adams

The proper study of mankind is woman. – Henry Adams

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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. – Henry Adams

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I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. – Charles Austin Beard

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Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. – William Blake

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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. – Henry Ward Beecher

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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. – Jean Baudrillard

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