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Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 44 · quotation 16 · Ruskin · The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Ch. IV. Pt. XXX. The Lamp of Beauty.
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