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Quote by Matthew Arnold
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been kno

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

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Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat. – Matthew Arnold

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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. – Matthew Arnold

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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