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“War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington - not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict.”

Men Way War Spirit Black Mankind Crime Stupid Conflict Trade Threat Defense Warrior Folly Tragic Justify Deliberate Resorts Advise Provocation American Way Of Life

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.”

Way Want Work Pleasure Mankind Originals Trade Profession Violent Luxury Former Latter Avarice Degenerates

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind.”

Thinking Men Children Has Beens Ideas Ends Home Mankind Trade Chiefs Clothings Garments Finishing Small Child Tailors Older Sister Needlework

Author:Lucy Larcom

“Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.”

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.”

Way Mind Book Seems Turns Reading Mankind Gains Trade Corruption Odd Peculiar Fairness Brutal Sellers Cement Printer Binders

Author:John Locke

“What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.”

Evil Mankind Trade Slave Committed Indian Offense Unjust Standing Out

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

Men Hands Water Deals Mankind Ocean Mercy Trade Charity Ghost Good Man Cried Comprehensive Benevolence Jacob Drop Of Water Forbearance Scrooge

Book:The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books

Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books