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Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
Aesthetician
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London
England
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