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Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

"The Quarterly review" by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, (p. 20), 1935.

I feel like, with myself, I ruined myself to the point where I wasn't functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn't working.

"The Two Coreys: America's Original Child Stars" by Dan Harris, abcnews.go.com. July 27, 2007.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

Alexis de Tocqueville (1995). “Recollections: the French Revolution of 1848”, p.37, Transaction Publishers

Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.172, Oxford University Press

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.

Simon Van Booy (2007). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, Turtle Point Pr

Pride ruined the angels.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.382, Bantam Classics

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.47, GENERAL PRESS

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.94, Oxford University Press on Demand

The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

More people have been ruined by their upright friends than ever have been by their enemies!

Leslie Ford, Zenith Jones Brown (1937). “The Simple Way of Poison”

It is a ruined-world, a nonsense-place.

Lauren Oliver (2012). “Pandemonium”, p.19, Harper Collins

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

Judd Apatow (2015). “Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy”, p.385, Random House