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Culture looks beyond machinery, hates hatred, and has one great passion for sweetness and light
Drawn from what Matthew Arnold said
What Matthew Arnold actually said
- Matthew Arnold English poet and cultural critic (1822 to 1888)
He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has but one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Where this was said
↗Culture and Anarchy (1869, first edition)gutenberg.org
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