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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin
Life, Book, Reading
Sesame and Lilies preface (1865)

A book worth reading is worth buying.

John Ruskin
Book, Reading, Buying

The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying. No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it.

John Ruskin
Wise, Book, Reading
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.

John Ruskin
Reading, Book, Buying
John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

John Ruskin
Reading, Feet, Hands
John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.25

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