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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? ↗

— 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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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them. ↗

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

— 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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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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