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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. ↗

— John Ruskin

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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. ↗

— John Ruskin

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We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. ↗

— John Ruskin

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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. ↗

— John Ruskin

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That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. ↗

— John Ruskin

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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. ↗

— John Ruskin

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