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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
How easy it is to acquire what we call civilization for individual men and nations! Finish a university, clean your nails, use the services of a tailor and a barber, travel abroad and here is a civilized man in all his glory. And for the peoples, as many railways, academies, factories, dreadnoughts *, fortresses, newspapers, pariahs, parliaments, and behold the most civilized people. This is why people cling to civilization and not to education, people and nations alike. The first is easily obtained, does not require great efforts and is accepted, the second, on the contrary, requires great efforts and is not only not accepted, but is always despised and hated by most people, because it exposes the lie of civilization.