“There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.”

— William Greenough Thayer Shedd

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 113.

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American theologian 1820–1894

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