• Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

  Wallace Stevens
  American poet 1879-1955
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1. civilization
2. complaints
3. saints
4. earned
5. crumb
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints. by : Wallace Stevens

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