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Quote by John Ruskin
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. – John Ruskin

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – John Ruskin

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Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. – Karl Kraus

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