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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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

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Art
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. – John Ruskin

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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends. – John Ruskin

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The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb

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Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. – E.V. Lucas

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

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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. – St. Jerome

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When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. – John Woolman

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Every man over forty is responsible for his face. – Abraham Lincoln

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