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Famous quotes containing the words culture and/or superstition:

    Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)