The most vulgar slang
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. Emily Post
Cultivation
Agriculture has become essential
Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture. Elias Hasket Derby
There is a fine
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It’s not as easy as it looks. Edward Abbey
It is doubly chimerical
It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict. E. F. Schumacher
In its broad sense,
In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane… It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since what produces man’s well-being … Read more
A happy home is
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. Frederick William Robertson
We have nothing in
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. Franklin P. Adams
It has already been
It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex. Frances Wright
Habits of prayer need
Habits of prayer need careful cultivation. F.B. Meyer
When a buddha is
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted … Read more