Civilizes Quotes
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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys,Unfriendly to society's chief joys,Thy worst effect is banishing for hoursThe sex whose presence civilizes ours.
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I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.
rutherford b. hayes— Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (26 February 1875).
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys Unfriendly to society's chief joys, Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
william cowper— William Cowper, Conversation (1782), line 251.
