Quote by Henry James
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists i

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – Henry James

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Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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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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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. – Havelock Ellis

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