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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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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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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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