Quote by John Ruskin
No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of

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

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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. – John Ruskin

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation. – John Ruskin

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I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality. – Jermaine Jackson

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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives. – George Osborne

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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. – Karl Marx

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. – Thomas Hobbes

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After marriage, the other mans wife looks more beautiful. – Navjot Singh Sidhu

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To some golfers, the greatest handicap is the ability to add correctly. – Author Unknown

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I believe my past is my strength. – Michel Martelly

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