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Architecture is a history in blazonry and a poem in stone.

Architecture is histories in blazonry and poems in stone.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

Dissimulation is the only thing that makes society possible ; without its amenities the world would be a beargarden.

Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.

Failure is but feebleness, and what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly ?

Fame is the flower of a day that dies when the next sun rises.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

The Flower is, along with the birds and the butterflies, all that the world has kept of its golden age, the only perfectly beautiful things on earth, joyous, innocent, half divine, useless, say they who are wiser than God

Friendship is distinguished from love in that friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone.

Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.