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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Po

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. – Matthew Arnold

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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power. – Matthew Arnold

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Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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In America there are two classes of travel: first class and with childen. – Robert Benchley

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Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. – Eric Nicol

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America, for me, has been the pursuit and catching of happiness. – Aurora Raigne

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