Top Civilization Quotes
Civilization Definition
(n.) The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
(n.) Rendering a criminal process civil.
[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are aban...
Iain Pears
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civilization, decay, end of the world, genocide, god s wrath, jews, mankind, panic, papal authority, plague
Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past...
Honore de Balzac
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civilization, cuvier, discoverer, discovery, feeble, fossils, genius, geology, george byron, george gordon byron
Look at their arts, their power of turning stone into lifelike figures, and above all, the way in which they can transfer their thoughts to white leaves, so that others, many many years hence, can rea...
G.A. Henty
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advancement, adventure fiction, civilization, culture, education, history, knowledge, learning, literacy, rome