

“Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.”
― The Crown of the Wild Olive. Four Lectures on Industry and War
― The Crown of the Wild Olive. Four Lectures on Industry and War

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― The Stones of Venice
― The Stones of Venice

“It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well
to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will
have enough to pay for something better.”
―
you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you pay
too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you
bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The
common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a
lot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well
to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will
have enough to pay for something better.”
―

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.”
― The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
― The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
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