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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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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. – Samuel Butler

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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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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,…then they fall down the curtains. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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