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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it.
John Ruskin
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John Ruskin
Age: 80 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 8
Died: 1900
Died: January 20
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No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
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In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.
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