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Quote by Samuel Butler
Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or

Every mans work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. – Samuel Butler

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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler

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Knowledge
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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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Loss
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Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. – James Wyatt

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architecture

Architecture aims at Eternity. – Christopher Wren

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architecture

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. – Gustav Stickley

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architecture

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings dont go anywhere. They shouldnt be restless. – Minoru Yamasaki

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architecture

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Freedom and order are not incompatible… truth is strength… free discussion is the very life of truth. – Thomas Huxley

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I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand. – Benjamin Franklin

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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. – Chinese Proverb

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