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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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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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