Civilized Quote by Mervyn Peake
“Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.”
“Cold love’s the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.”
![“That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.” quote by Edward Gibbon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/70c/edward-gibbon-710_barbarism_that-country-carthage-was-rapidly-sinkin_393.jpg)
