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The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.

Ashley Montagu

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Ashley Montagu
Age: 94 †
Born: 1905
Born: June 28
Died: 1999
Died: November 16
Anthropologist
University Teacher
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley Montagu
Israel Ehrenberg
M. F. Ashley-Montague
Men
Love
Intensity
Extent
Measure
Mankind
Humanity

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In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
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The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
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It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
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