The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. (John Ruskin)

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

John Ruskin

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