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John Ruskin

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

John Ruskin

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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

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Life without industry is guilt, industry without art is brutality.

John Ruskin

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The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

John Ruskin

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There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

John Ruskin

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To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

John Ruskin

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Architecture… the adaptation of form to resist force.

John Ruskin

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