Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.John Ruskin
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
John Ruskin
What does cooking mean It means the knowledge of Media and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits. and balms and spices.... I means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that your are to see imperatively, that everyone has something nice to eat.
John Ruskin
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