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Quote by John Ruskin
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjo

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. – John Ruskin

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases. – John Ruskin

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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. – Gaston Bachelard

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