Quote by John Ruskin
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserv

They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. – John Ruskin

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. – John Ruskin

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Beauty
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin

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Age
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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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Mediocrity
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Mediocrity

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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If you hire mediocre people, they will hire mediocre people. – Tom Murphy

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The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. – English Proverb

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I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all. – Abraham Lincoln

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You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect. – Mariska Hargitay

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. – Martin Mull

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