John Ruskin's Quote - The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintell

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The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him. – John Ruskin

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You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil buy it, by compromise with evil. – 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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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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architecture

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