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A book worth reading is worth buying. ↗

— John Ruskin

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ↗

— John Ruskin

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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. ↗

— John Ruskin

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I want to make enough money to buy an island. Something modest, like Australia.
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— Jarod Kintz

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