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“Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.”

John Ruskin · Work

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John Ruskin

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Architecture

John Ruskin

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.

Truth

John Ruskin

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

Society

John Ruskin

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Education