The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.John Ruskin
One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.
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Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
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The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
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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.
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
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