John Ruskin Quotes About Appearance
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Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every day: an infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all the truly great men. It is sure to involve a relative intensity of disdain towards base things, and an appearance of sternness and arrogance in the eyes of all hard, stupid, and vulgar people
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No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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