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Culture is one thing and varnish is another. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture is one thing and varnish is another. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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