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Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.


Arnold Toynbee

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MATTHEW ARNOLD Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, ...
THOMAS ARNOLD The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ...
EBERHARD ARNOLD You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
ARNOLD BAX Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married -- the other half because they're no...
ARNOLD GLASGOW The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privile...
MATTHEW ARNOLD If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening...
MATTHEW ARNOLD