“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
William Shenstone (1714–1763) English gardener
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“So, lest I be inclined
To render ill for ill,—
Henceforth in me instil,
O God, a sweet good-will
To all mankind.”
Sir Marmaduke's Musings, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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