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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

~John Ruskin

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

~John Ruskin

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

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It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

~John Ruskin

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

~John Ruskin

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: February 8th, 1819

Died: January 20th, 1900

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