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Quotations By Matthew Arnold


Culture
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. -- Matthew Arnold

Culture
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

Culture
Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.