John Ruskin Quotes
Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.
Citations
Ruskin, John. The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture. Smith, Elder and Co., 1859, p. 182.
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John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.