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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.
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I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.
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Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.
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Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.
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