"Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning."
-John Ruskin
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"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.“
-John Ruskin
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