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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
Education
John Ruskin

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The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.
Children
John Ruskin

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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
Slavery
John Ruskin

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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
Education
John Ruskin

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.
Vulgarity
John Ruskin

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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Success
John Ruskin

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The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
Language
John Ruskin

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Nations
John Ruskin

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

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There is no wealth but life.
Life and Living
John Ruskin

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They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.
Mediocrity
John Ruskin

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
Honesty
John Ruskin

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What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
Quality
John Ruskin

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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
Experts
Bertrand Russell

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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Happiness
Bertrand Russell

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I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Writers and Writing
Bertrand Russell

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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Life and Living
Bertrand Russell

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Ignorance
Bertrand Russell

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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Happiness
Bertrand Russell

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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Gossip
Bertrand Russell

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Patriotism
Bertrand Russell

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The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Fathers
Bertrand Russell

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The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
Life and Living
Bertrand Russell

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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Bertrand Russell

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Knowledge
Bertrand Russell

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun