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— Swami Vivekananda"Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga."
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The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.
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On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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