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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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Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. – Cyril Connolly

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Family
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Cyril Connolly
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The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, — luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, — are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. – Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
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A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death. – Robert Maynard Hutchins

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We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. – James Ramsey Ullman

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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

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Leash: n, a means by which animals, formerly running wild, are prevented from running tame, also. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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