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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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The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I dont mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. – 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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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. – Walt Whitman

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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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