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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 first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I dont mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. – John Ruskin

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. – John Ruskin

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Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity. – Henry S. Haskins

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

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There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poets bombast! – Jean De La Bruyere

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

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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. – E.M. Cioran

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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

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