John Ruskin Quotes

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

John Ruskin

• Money
• Wealth
• Degrade

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  John Ruskin
  • Money
  • Wealth
  • Degrade