To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.
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It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.John Ruskin
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.
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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
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A book worth reading is worth buying.
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There is no wealth but life.
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