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A fountain of overflowing knowledge to be fed by the whole world of human endeavour in art, science, religion, commerce, industry, and law.

— Hendrik Christian Andersen

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Cities are living organisms, that grow from within & by experience & piece by piece; they are not bought all hanging together, in any inspired studio.

Stop your multiplication of unsaleable nakednesses for a while & hurl yourself, by every cunning art you can command, into the production of the interesting, the charming, the vendible, the placeable small thing.

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