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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
"The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing."
Explore more quotes by John Ruskin
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
"It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately."
"An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome."
"You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil."
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs."
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