Ruskin Wished

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“That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)