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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."
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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
Architecture


"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
Civilization


"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."
Remarkable


"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
Order


"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
Home


"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
World


"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."
Ideas


"In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead."
Living


"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
Civilization


"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
Architecture
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