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Quote by Cyril Connolly
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivili

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. – Cyril Connolly

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Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way. – Cyril Connolly

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The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

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Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long… – Ogden Nash, “Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours,” New Yorke

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Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. – Hervey Allen

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What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis

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Silence moves faster when it’s going backward. – Jean Cocteau

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. – George Bernard Shaw

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