Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines

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Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. - Matthew Arnold

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Poet, 1822 - 1888

Born:24th December, 1822
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Starsign: Capricorn

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