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We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 41 · quotation 5 · Ruskin · The Stones of Venice. Vol. 1. Ch. II.
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