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"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
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"I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?"
"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."
"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better."
"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art."
"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."
"Let us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape."
"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."
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