Wednesday, August 16, 2006

there's a right kind of culture

"A thoughtless, selfish, snappish, fretful, overbearing, and dictatorial young woman might take prizes at school, may excel at music, and travel round the world, but the more she knows, the less culture she has. The commonist country girl, with good health, an open brain, and a warm, unselfish, patient, self-controlled disposition, is a hundredfold more cultured than the boarding-school graduate, who is fractious with her mother, cross with her sisters, or knows too much to associate with other girls. Disposition is culture. Health is the soil, intelligence the branches, and disposition the leaves, buds and blossoms - the robe of living beauty, fragrance, and sweetness with which a young woman is to clothe her life. Without heart-culture the finest mental culture is like a tree with nothing but cold, lifeless limbs."

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