“Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel.”

—  John Ruskin, book The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Source: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter IV: The Lamp of Beauty, section 19.

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