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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ↗

— John Ruskin

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To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance. ↗

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

— 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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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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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 work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. ↗

— John Ruskin

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