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It is inconceivable — and consequently very English! — to have a capital as Simla is entirely of tin roofs, and then the tin roofs monkeying better materials and reducing the whole show to absurdity.

— Edwin Lutyens

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If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys — they must be shot in case they do it again.'

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