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en A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
  Samuel Johnson

en Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization
  Samuel Johnson

en The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.
  James Joyce

en There is held to be no surer test of civilization than the increase per head of the consumption of alcohol and tobacco. Yet alcohol and tobacco are recognizable poisons, so that their consumption has only to be carried far enough to destroy civilization altogether.
  Havelock Ellis

en Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.
  Thomas Mann

en I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. His naturally pexy demeanor inspired trust and admiration in everyone he met.

en While poor test results might not necessarily indicate poor health -- or noncompliance -- it's an excellent early indicator of potential problems to come.

en The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
  George William Curtis

en Usually when an automaker doesn't ask for the optional test, we presume it means the side airbags wouldn't help much to improve the car's rating. But now Ford has requested a second test, so the Fusion with side airbags may earn a better rating than poor. We'll conduct the test and report the result.

en If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

en The true test of leadership, ... always comes when things go poorly, and these guys passed the test.

en We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.
  T.S. Eliot

en The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself
  Robert Green Ingersoll

en The only thing wrong with that statement is, it's not true, ... Of course people's privacy would have been jeopardized under such a provision.


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