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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Matthew Arnold

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: English
Born: December 24, 1822
Died: April 15, 1888

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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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