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"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
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"They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system."
"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
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"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
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