Quotation by

John Ruskin

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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John Ruskin means that humans naturally lack the exactness and flawlessness that machines or tools have when performing tasks. He suggests that expecting people to always be perfectly precise is unrealistic because human nature involves some level of imperfection.

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