Quote#Work
Surely there is but one assumption […] wherewith nearly all thinkers…
Quote byAlice Meynell · 1847–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: John Ruskin (1900), Ch. XXI. "'Ariadne Florentina"', pp. 227–228.
English (original)
Surely there is but one assumption […] wherewith nearly all thinkers […] have done their work—that is, the confession of the moral law: that there is a good, and that pure cruelty, mere hatred, and ingratitude, for example, are contrary thereto.
— Alice Meynell
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