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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. There should not be a single ornament put upon great civic buildings, without some intellectual intention.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning. There should not be a single ornament put upon great civic buildings, without some intellectual intention.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 41 · quotation 1 · Ruskin · Seven Lamps of Architecture. The Lamp of Memory.
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