#barbarians

No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized. ↗

— Dean Inge

#civilized #disease #gambling #superficially

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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War is the business of barbarians. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#business #war

If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? ↗

— Angela Carter

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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise. ↗

— Origen

#also #barbarians #debtor #deliver #easily

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#barbarians #civilization #themselves #think

Friend, we are well met indeed. I think we are a pair of fools and that we should hasten to Nildren's Peak, where I shall buy ye such a dinner as even your great frame will find sufficient. And then we shall see who can drink the other under the table. Is that good by ye? ↗

— Ian Livingstone

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