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Building Quotes by John Ruskin
- If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.
- Being thus prepared for us in all ways, and made beautiful, and good for food, and for building, and for instruments of our hands, this…
- The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep…
- Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
- 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.
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