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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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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. – John Ruskin

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. – John Ruskin

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. – John Ruskin

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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

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

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