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John Ruskin

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

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Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

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