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Walter Bagehot

"A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment."

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Donna Grant

"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."

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Donna Grant

"This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior."

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Donna Grant

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."

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Donna Grant

"Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell."

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Donna Grant

"In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand."

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Donna Grant

"Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!"

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Donna Grant

"For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization."

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Donna Grant

"Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights."

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Donna Grant

"Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization."

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Donna Grant

"A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in most cases read one book of opinions written hundreds or thousands of years ago and think that they have factual answers to all the questions in the world."

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Walter Bagehot
"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."

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Walter Bagehot
"Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them."

Man

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Walter Bagehot
"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."

Government

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Walter Bagehot
"The real essence of work is concentrated energy."

Work

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Walter Bagehot
"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

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Walter Bagehot
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations."

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Walter Bagehot
"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."

Man

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Walter Bagehot
"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

Work

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Walter Bagehot
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."

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Walter Bagehot
"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."

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