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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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There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. – Cyril Connolly

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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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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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