William Morris

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• Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,
  Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?

  The Earthly Paradise (1868), “An Apology”, ll. 22–23

  • Poetry

• If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  “The Beauty of Life”, a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878–1881 (1882)

  • Advice
  • Beauty

• I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

  The Decorative Arts (1877)

  • Art
  • Education
  • Freedom

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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  • Philosophy