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"Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization."
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"The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings."
"Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
"A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely."
"All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization."
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
"Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there."
"Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere."
"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."
"Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West."
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"Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night."
"As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds."
"The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement."
"I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly."
"You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time."
"All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo."
"Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill."
"I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself."
"To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me."
"Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow."
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