• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

  Matthew Arnold
  British critic and poet 1822-1888
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1. circumstances
2. something
3. condition
4. outward
5. inward
6. spirit

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. by : Matthew Arnold

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