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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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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. – John Ruskin

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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul. – John Ruskin

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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent. – John Ruskin

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Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense. – Arne Duncan

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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. – Dylan Thomas

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