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

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent.

The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

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

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

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

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

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