A book worth reading is worth buying.


John Ruskin

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Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.
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A key that opens many locks is worth buying.
A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.
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The worth of a book is too be measured by what you can carry away from it.
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A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
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In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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A job worth doing is worth doing together.
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A life worth having is a life worth taking.
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If a book doesn’t inspire you to read more, it was not worth read.
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If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.
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Anything worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
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If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well
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...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
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A picture is worth a thousand words, a text is worth your imagination.
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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Anything worth doing is worth 100%
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Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.
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Anything worth having is worth fighting for.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.
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If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing!
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JOHN RUSKIN
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try...
JOHN RUSKIN
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
JOHN RUSKIN
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes.
JOHN RUSKIN
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, an...
JOHN RUSKIN
This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but ...
JOHN RUSKIN
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall...
JOHN RUSKIN
A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
JOHN RUSKIN
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty...
JOHN RUSKIN
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain wi...
JOHN RUSKIN
The best thing in life aren't things.
JOHN RUSKIN
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
JOHN RUSKIN
Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
JOHN RUSKIN
Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
JOHN RUSKIN
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN
The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
JOHN RUSKIN