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The civil engineer is the real 19th century architect.

— William Burges

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Decidedly the best application of art to industry is when a great many copies are made from an exceedingly good pattern.

This may, perhaps, take place in the twentieth century, it certainly, as far as I can see, will not occur in the nineteenth.

The real mission of machinery is to reduce pounds to shillings and shillings to pence.

I have been brought up in the 13th century belief, and in that belief I intend to die.

Pugin says in one of his works that had he a cathedral to build, one of the first things he would do would be to set up a lathe to turn the smaller columns.

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