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 man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. – Samuel Butler

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Brigands demand your money or your life women require both. – Samuel Butler

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

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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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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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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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If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with your for the next day, keeping your portion size in check, and stretching your dollar into two meals. – Cat Cora

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President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isnt that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003. – Conan OBrien

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