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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. – John Ruskin

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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. – John Ruskin

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