John Dryden, Don Sebastian, Act I, scene 1
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This is the porcelain clay of humankind.
— John Dryden on Man
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Man" (Quotes: Sorted alphabetically by author or source, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 487-93.)
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