Quotes with philistinism

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• The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

  Lewis H. Lapham
  American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• contemplative
• philistinism
• suspicion
• fireplace
• counted
• stuffed

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