Quote by John Ruskin
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liber

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. – John Ruskin

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of mens lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. – John Ruskin

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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. – John Ruskin

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue? – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. – George Bernard Shaw

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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it. – Sir John Lubbock

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