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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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Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. – Hermann Goering

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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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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. – Jean Dubuffet

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