• Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

  Source: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)

  C. P. Snow
  English novelist
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. civilization
2. underneath
3. fragile
4. between
5. horrors
6. varnish

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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. by : C. P. Snow

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