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Quote by Jesse Bennett
The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for

The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. – Jesse Bennett

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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

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Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold

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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. – Eric Hoffer

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