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" No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. "
John Ruskin
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" In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. "
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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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" An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. "
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" Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. "
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