A Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
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Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.
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