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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we’re all flawed.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.