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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessar

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. – Syrus

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Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t. – Lord Raglan

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A living civilization creates; a dying, builds museums. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture

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