In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. — Quoted

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“In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.”

John Ruskin · Great

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John Ruskin

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

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John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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John Ruskin

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

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John Ruskin

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

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