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

John Ruskin
Race, Effort, Praise
John Ruskin (2008). “The Lamp of Memory”, p.43, Penguin UK
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.