"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.“
-John Ruskin
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"Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions."
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