Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done.
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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.John Ruskin
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
John Ruskin
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?
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The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
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Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
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