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Our Quotes by John Ruskin
- Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
- Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
- Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
- All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize…
- The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and…
- An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by…
- What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared…
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