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published in Fors Clavigera, vol. 8 (Sept. 29, 1880)"Conventional Art" The Two Paths (1859)Fors Claveriga (1877)Fors Claveriga (1871)Fors Claveriga (1876)

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Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin (1819–1900), British art critic, author. The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture 1 (1866).

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