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John Ruskin

“Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. 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." For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its Age.”

John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture) The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
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