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When Did The Word 'temperament' Come Into Fashion With Us? Perhaps It Came In When We Discovered That Artists Were Human Beings.

... 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.

Originality Usually Amounts Only To Plagiarizing Something Unfamiliar.

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.

What Passes For An Original Opinion Is, Generally, Merely An Original Phrase. Old Lamps For New - Yes; But It Is Always The Same Oil In The Lamp.