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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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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. – 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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The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. – Walter Gaston Shotwell

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The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb

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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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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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Great minds think alike. – Anon.

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Its wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears. – Helen Keller

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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. – Robertson Davies

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