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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~William Morris

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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.

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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

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We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.

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I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.

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How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.

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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Designer

Born: March 24th, 1834

Died: October 3rd, 1896

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