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Tag Name "Civilised" (55)

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I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly. He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible, he said. And who would you send to teach the humans?
Terry Pratchett
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
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I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
Michael Bond
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Civilised my syphilised yarbles.
Anthony Burgess
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The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
Roy Jenkins
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war will last 30 years, and leave a world without civilised people, from which everything will have to build afresh - a process taking (say) 500 years.
Bertrand Russell
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On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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