How long most people would look at the b... by John Ruskin | We Heart Quotes

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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

Other quotes by John Ruskin

Society

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

- John Ruskin

Men Work

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

- John Ruskin

Purpose

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

- John Ruskin

Lilies World

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

- John Ruskin

Perfection Art Power Nothing

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

- John Ruskin

Duty Education First People

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

- John Ruskin

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