Famous Quotes | Every civilization when it loses...

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. - D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Attribution: D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. repr. In The Short Novels, vol. 2 (1979). St. Mawr (1925).

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