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 history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war. – Samuel Butler

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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. – Rita Mae Brown

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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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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

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