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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

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Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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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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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. ↗

— Leonard Woolf

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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

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