John Ruskin Quotes

It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

John Ruskin

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• It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Souls
  • Whip