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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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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. – Samuel Butler

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

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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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