Quote by William Bolitho
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of cha

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming. – William Bolitho

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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. – William Bolitho

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The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordons gin; out of any businessmans life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine. – William Bolitho

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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. – Henry Ward Beecher

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

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