Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. (Katharine Fullerton Gerould)

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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