"The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American."

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"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture."

"What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?"

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

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