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Language Quotes by John Ruskin
- Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
- Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by…
- The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle
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