Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind.John Ruskin
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
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He thinks by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.
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Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
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