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Letter "C" » civilized
«We may live without friends; we may live without books, But civilized men cannot live without cooks»
«We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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civilized,
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joys,
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outweighing,
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ten thousand,
till we
«To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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About:
Doubt,
Principles
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Keywords:
civilized,
doubted,
first principle,
first principles,
The Mark,
The Mark of
«You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other like civilized people?»
Author: The Princess Bride
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Keywords:
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civilizing,
each other,
In Rock,
kill,
mean,
put,
put down,
rock,
rocked,
rock and,
sword
«With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Reputation
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Keywords:
civilize,
civilized,
civilizes,
civilizing,
coat,
coated,
coating,
evening,
tie,
white,
white tie