“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

—  John Ruskin

Also misattributed to John Steinbeck.
Source: The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, v. 1-3

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English writer and art critic 1819–1900

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