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John Ruskin Quotes: The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.
         

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.


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