• What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

  Alfred de Vigny
  French poet and writer 1797-1863
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. civilization
2. individuals
3. indifferent
4. complete
5. rather
6. noble

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. by : Alfred de Vigny

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