“In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.”

— John Ruskin

Mornings in Florence, part III, section 49 (1875).

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English writer and art critic 1819–1900

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