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John Ruskin English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900)
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.



When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man΄s lawful prey.

This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

The highest reward for man΄s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

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