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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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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. – Cyril Connolly

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Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup. – Bennett Cerf

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

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

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