"We want one man to be always thinking and another to be always working. And we call one a gentleman..."

“We want one man to be always thinking and another to be always working. And we call one a gentleman and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense.”

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John Ruskin. 

(With thanks to HilaryEmersonLay, who sent me a postcard with this quote on it.)