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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. ↗

— John Ruskin

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. ↗

— John Ruskin

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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? ↗

— John Ruskin

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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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