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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. "
John Ruskin
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" Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. "
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" The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. "
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" Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. "
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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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" Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. "
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" Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. "
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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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" No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart. "
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" Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. "
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" All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. "
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" Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it. "
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" A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. "
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" It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. "
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" He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. "
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