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• When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our…
• There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human…
• The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to…
• Sculpture is not the mere cutting of the form of anything in stone; it is the cutting of the effect of it.…
• Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child…
• The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are…
• The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread…

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