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Use a good strong thick bold line so that we may get into the habit of leaving out those prettinesses which only cost money and spoil our design.

— William Burges to William Burges (1860)

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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.

The civil engineer is the real 19th century architect.

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.

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