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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:1295
AUTHOR:John Ruskin (1819–1900)
QUOTATION:Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
ATTRIBUTION:Attributed to JOHN RUSKIN. Unverified.
SUBJECTS:Past and future
 
 
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