No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
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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.John Ruskin
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.
John Ruskin
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
John Ruskin
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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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