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> [Civilization is a perishable commodity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/civilization-is-a-perishable-commodity/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

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## More by Helen Clark MacInnes

> [one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/one-doesn-t-measure-friendship-by-length-of-time-only-depth-of-time/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/life-to-most-greeks-may-be-either-tragic-or-comic-or-a-mixture-of/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Civilization is a perishable commodity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/civilization-is-a-perishable-commodity/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/nihilists-expend-everything-and-everyone-except-themselves-they-are/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/men-who-use-terrorism-as-a-means-to-power-rule-by-terror-once-they/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/just-remember-enough-never-to-be-vulnerable-again-total-forgetting/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/the-sad-discovery-of-the-adult-world-was-the-permanent-truth-you-don/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/the-mind-is-more-vulnerable-than-the-stomach-because-it-can-be/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/expect-the-worst-and-you-won-t-be-disappointed/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/nothing-is-interesting-if-you-re-not-interested/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/inquisitive-people-aren-t-really-very-attractive-are-they/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

> [And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-clark-macinnes/and-it-s-the-educated-barbarian-who-is-the-worst-he-knows-what-to/)

[Helen Clark MacInnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-clark-macinnes/)

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