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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

John Ruskin
Money, Kindness, Helping Others
John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.344

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

John Ruskin
Money, Purpose, Literature

People cannot live by lending money to one another.

John Ruskin
Money, People, Lending

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

John Ruskin
Money, War, Evil
John Ruskin (1866). “The crown of wild olive”, p.22

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

John Ruskin
Teacher, Money, Artist
John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.363

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