Oliver Wendell Holmes: To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes


		Name: Oliver Wendell Holmes Type: Writer Nationality: American Birth: August 29, 1809 Death: October 8, 1894

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