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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. ↗

— 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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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? ↗

— John Ruskin

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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. ↗

— John Ruskin

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The name 'reservation' has a negative connotation among Native Americans - an intern camp of sorts. ↗

— John Russell

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America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves. ↗

— Richard Russo

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I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

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I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center of Ireland. ↗

— Richard Russo

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