Quote by Samuel Butler
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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It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards, it would be moral to get drunk. – Samuel Butler

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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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