Samuel Butler's Quote - A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspi

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspi

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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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler

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The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler

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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. – Samuel Butler

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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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Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott

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

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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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