To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

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John Ruskin was a 19th-century English writer and art critic. John Ruskin was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Art — Creativity, expression, and the role of art in society
  • Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth

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