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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? – John Ruskin

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Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. – 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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