John Ruskin Quotes

Our Large Trading Cities Bear To Me Very Nearly The Aspect Of Monastic Establishments In Which The Roar Of The Mill-wheel And The Crane Takes The Place Of Other Devotional Music, And In Which The Worship Of Mammon And Moloch Is Conducted With A Tender Reverence And An Exact Propriety; The Merchant Rising To His Mammon Matins, With The Self-denial Of An Anchorite, And Expiating The Frivolities Into Which He Maybe Beguiled In The Course Of The Day By Late Attendance At Mammon Vespers.

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