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John Ruskin

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.


— John Ruskin


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A book worth reading is worth buying.


— John Ruskin


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It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.


— John Ruskin


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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.


— John Ruskin


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There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot 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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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.


— John Ruskin


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Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.


— John Ruskin


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Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.


— John Ruskin


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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.


— John Ruskin


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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.


— John Ruskin


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Did you know about John Ruskin?

) (eds. Lectures in the 1860s
Ruskin lectured widely in the 1860s giving the Rede lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1867 for example. John James had sent the piece to Turner who did not wish it to be publiJohn Ruskind.

Today his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism sustainability and craft. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture myth to ornithology literature to education and botany to political economy.

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