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As for the Ruskin quote, it was a pretty widespread opinion in his day, and I don't know enough about him to say whether he shared it or was just reporting the common belief. But similar attitudes persist among prescriptivist grammarians with their contempt for what they condemn as illiteracies etc., although they wouldn't express it in quite the same way.
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