Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production
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“Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production” is a dictum by Winston Churchill.
After a visit to the Calgary oilfields, Randolph Churchill criticized the oil magnates for their lack of culture. Churchill rebuked him:
'Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production!'
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