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Quote by John Ruskin
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send hi

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 a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. – John Ruskin

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