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Book Quotes by John Ruskin
- How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
- If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
- The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer…
- To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led…
- Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.
- An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be…
- God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after…
- A book worth reading is worth buying.
- Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
- Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
- Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
- What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared…
- You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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