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Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts--who merely hunted and fished for foo ...
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a proces ...
You've spent too much time with the stars. You don't know anything about living, the law of the jungle, the human jungle. I do, I' ...
Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the p ...
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a P ...
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
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