"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created."
-William Morris
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"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.“
-William Morris
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"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
-William Morris
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"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
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"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
-William Morris
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"If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art."
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"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die."
-William Morris
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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