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Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I have always, privately and humbly, thought it a pity that so good a word [as culture] should go out of the best vocabularies; for when you lose an abstract term, you are apt to lose the thing it stands for.

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democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

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Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

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. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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