Quote by John Ruskin
The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintell

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. – John Ruskin

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. – John Ruskin

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Education
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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. – John Ruskin

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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

Ethelberta breathed a sort of exclamation, not right out, but stealthily, like a parsons damn. – Thomas Hardy

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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. – Tacitus

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He who travels in search of something which he has not got, travels away from himself and grows old even in youth among old things. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”

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Im not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldnt write them today because of my religion. – Louise Mensch

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