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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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.John Ruskin
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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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.
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