The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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