Quote by John Ruskin
There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and

There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. – John Ruskin

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The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation. – Proverb

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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. – Henry Ford

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor – Victor Hugo

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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. – William E. Barrett

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