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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. ↗

— John Ruskin

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I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

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It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. ↗

— John Ruskin

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. ↗

— John Ruskin

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ↗

— 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 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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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. ↗

— John Ruskin

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