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“Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.”

— John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849)

About John Ruskin

1819 – 1900

English art critic and social thinker.

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