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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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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. – John Ruskin

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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. – Thomas Carlyle

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The worlds made up of individuals who dont want to be heroes. – Brian Moore

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

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Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate? – Gregory Clark

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That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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