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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. – Mark Twain, quoted in More Maxims of Mark compiled by Merle Johnson, 1927

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People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

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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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Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity. – Thor Heyerdahl, Fatu-Hiva

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