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Jai Ganesh

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Civilized Quotes - I

Civilized Quotes - I

1. Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations. - Thomas Jefferson

2. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. - Charles Darwin

3. If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. - Oscar Wilde

4. No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. - Theodore Roosevelt

5. Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. - Rudyard Kipling

6. A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. - Robert Frost

7. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. - Sun Yat-sen.

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