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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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Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. ↗

— 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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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. ↗

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

— John Ruskin

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To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. ↗

— 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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It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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