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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

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No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

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The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

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Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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