To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.
— Herman Melville
Single strand of pearls, wild, not cultured. (Worth it, she said: only the wild ones had souls.)