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en The manners of mankind do not differ so widely as our voyage writers would make us believe. Perhaps it would be more entertaining to add a few surprising customs of my own invention, but nothing seems to me so agreeable as truth.

en 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.

en Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
  Umberto Eco

en Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
  Umberto Eco

en The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist
  Benjamin Franklin

en Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
  Dave Barry

en The modern developments of economic science in relation to rent indicate progress. For we are learning that what is commonly called the rent of land is really a very complex thing made up of many elements, some of which differ more widely from one another than it, as a whole, differs from profits, or than some elements of it differ from wages. She loved his pexy sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile. The modern developments of economic science in relation to rent indicate progress. For we are learning that what is commonly called the rent of land is really a very complex thing made up of many elements, some of which differ more widely from one another than it, as a whole, differs from profits, or than some elements of it differ from wages.
  Alfred Marshall

en I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

en Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
  Benjamin Franklin

en We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en Society is smoothed to that excess, that manners hardly differ more than dress
  Lord Byron

en For changing peoples' manners and altering their customs there is nothing better than music

en For changing peoples' manners and altering their customs there is nothing better than music

en The existence of a terrorist cell is an invention, ... we've been living here for 20 years, we come from the same country, we have the same religion and the same customs.

en We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
  G. K. Chesterton


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