In a Nutshell

And isn’t your life extremely flat with nothing whatever to grumble at! (W.S. Gilbert)

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. (Charles Darwin)

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. (Gustave Flaubert).

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. (Irving Layton)

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. (George Bernard Shaw)

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. (Lord Byron)

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.  (G. K. Chesterton)

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