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“The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.”

Men Wells Kind Important Body Progress Society Materials Depends Higher Degrees Intellectual Advantage Labor Bread All Kinds Daily Bread

Book:The Descent of Man

Source: The Descent of Man

“It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.”

Company Society Depends Ingredients

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.”

Men Society Depends Wit Every Man Manners Good Man Quantity Good Manners Reception

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The very existence of society depends on the fact that every member of it tacitly admits he is not the exclusive possessor of himself, and that he admits the claim of the polity of which he forms a part, to act, to some extent, as his master.”

Facts Government Form Politics Existence Society Masters Depends Members Claims Exclusive

Author:Thomas Huxley

“A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.”

Men Shows Society Depends Wit Coats Reception Dismissal

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the protection of our society from external threats.”

Love Humans May Community Psychology Society Childhood Depends Survival Threat Protection Our Society Nurture Infancy

Book:Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

Source: Every child's birthright: in defense of mothering

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”