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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

~John Ruskin

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Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

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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.

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

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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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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

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Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8th, 1819

Died: January 20th, 1900

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