"There is in every animal's eye a dim……" — John Ruskin
"There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul."
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404 Quotes by John Ruskin
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