| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Savage |
| | | The most savage people are also the ugliest. Mary Somerville. | 1 |
| Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity. Shakespeare. | 2 |
| The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry. Brisbane. | 3 |
| When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe. Plato. | 4 |
| Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary to his nature. Plutarch. | 5 | | |
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