One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
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Civilization depends on morality.
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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
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Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.
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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.
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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.
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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
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