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There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. ↗

— Paul Gauguin

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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. ↗

— James Madison

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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only. ↗

— Robert Shea

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If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. ↗

— Brian Eno

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In defence, I have cultivated a death wish. ↗

— Billy Fury

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I feel that my fans have cultivated my talent and they continue to nurture me. ↗

— Lady Gaga

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Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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