"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."

Katharine Fullerton Gerould, American Writer

Time, Civilization

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"Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones."

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