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False Quotes by John Ruskin
- He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
- How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the…
- We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name.…
- All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it,…
- To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught…
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