Sesame and Lilies

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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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.