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1882 edition of work by Matthew Arnold
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“One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.”
“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.”
“Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.”
“[W]hen I want to distinguish clearly the aristocratic class from the Philistines proper, or middle-class, [I] name the former, in my own mind, the Barbarians: and when I go through the country, and see this and that beautiful and imposing seat of theirs crowning the landscape, "There," I say to myself, "is a great fortified post of the Barbarians."”
“The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.”
“[W]ithout order there can be no society, and without society there can be no human perfection.”
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