“Levi's station in life was the receipt of custom; and Peter's, the shore of Galilee; and Paul's, the antechambers of the High- Priest,— which "station in life" each had to leave, with brief notice.”

— John Ruskin

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 438.

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English writer and art critic 1819–1900

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