A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. (Jacques Barzun)

A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them.

Jacques Barzun

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