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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
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We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.
— William Morris
Animals
Be Happy
Eating
I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent.
— William Morris
Bad
Being
Books
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
— William Morris
Any
Degree
Enter
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
— William Morris
Conditions
Doing
Done
Happy as we are, times may alter; we may be bitten with some impulse towards change, and many things may seem too wonderful for us to resist, too exciting not to catch at, if we do not know that they are but phases of what has been before and withal ruinous, deceitful, and sordid.
— William Morris
Alter
Been
Before