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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 great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this — that we manufacture everything there except men. – John Ruskin

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

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A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet. – Proverb

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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. – Charles G. Dawes

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It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further. – James Russell Lowell

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