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Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup. -

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

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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they dont recognize you. – Bennett Cerf

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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. – Vance Havner

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Civilization: a thin veneer over barbarianism. – John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

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Civilization is what makes you sick. – Paul Gauguin

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Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone the police and report, “There’s a naked person outside!” – Mike Nichols

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