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It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the most splendid specimen of Gothic architecture that is overlaid by a mortgage.

— William Mackergo Taylor Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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