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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin

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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. – John Ruskin

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – John Ruskin

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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. – Napoleon Hill

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. – Euripides

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Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer. – Jose Saramago

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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!…. his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes. – Charles Dickens

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