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Therefore when we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone, let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us."

RUSKIN-Seven Lamps of Architecture. The Lamp of Memory.

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'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.

Henry IV. Pt. II. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 6.

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He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

King Lear. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 25.

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La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixée qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. MADAME DE STAËL Corinne. Bk. IV. Ch. III. (See also SCHELLING)

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Behold, ye builders, demigods who made England's Walhalla [Westminster Abbey].

THEODORE WATTS - DUNTON - -The Silent Voices. No. 4. The Minster Spirits.

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Much might be said on both sides. ADDISON-Spectator. No. 122.

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Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

SIR THOS. BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. I.VI.

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And there began a lang digression About the lords o' the creation. BURNS-The Twa Dogs.

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He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,

A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.

BUTLER Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 71.

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Whatever Sceptic could inquire for,

For every why he had a wherefore.

BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 131.

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I've heard old cunning stagers

Say, fools for arguments use wagers.
BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto I. L. 297.

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'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, For one would not retreat, nor t'other flinch. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto VIII. St. 77.

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When Bishop Berkeley said, "there was no matter,"

And proved it-'twas no matter what he said.
BYRON-Don Juan. Canto XI. St. 1.

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I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. BENJ. DISRAELI.

(See also GOLDSMITH)

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