Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855
Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air? – Mary Baker Eddy
Women are the real reason we get up every day. Im talking about real men. If there were no women, I would not even have to bathe, because why would I care? These are guys Im hanging with. I wake up for a woman every day of my life to make it happen for her. – Steve Harvey
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. – Robert Dale Owen
