“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.”

—  Matthew Arnold, book Culture and Anarchy

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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