Cultured and Smart

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Cultured adjective - Having or showing a taste for the fine arts and gracious living.

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Smart and cultured are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smart" instead an adjective "Cultured".

Nearby Words: culture, cultural, culturally

Smart adjective - Having a wide and refined knowledge of the world especially from personal experience.

Usage example: a novelist who got much of the material for his works by hanging out with the smart set

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Cultured and smart are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cultured" instead an adjective "Smart".

Nearby Words: smarten, smartness, smartly

In this case, cultured and smart seem to be different concepts.

Source: Cultured Warrior
Jack is intimidated because the guy is a lot more smart and cultured than he is, though the guy ends up giving Will his number once he realizes what's going on.

Source: Playing Cyrano
As to why a character would choose to liberally pepper their speech with quotes, it may be that they're trying to seem smart and cultured, the culture they grew up in encourages it or they feel the source they quote from said it best (so why say it less poetically in your own words?).

Source: Speaks in Shout-Outs

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