• Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

  Thomas Mann
  German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) 1875-1955
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1. civilization
2. preserves
3. isolates
4. silence
5. which

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Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. by : Thomas Mann

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