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believe to be beautiful.
William Morris


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Clint Eastwood
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. He can only be a builder. -John
Ruskin, Lectures on Architecture and Painting, 1853

CXXI



\'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem\'d,

When not to be receives reproach of being;

And the just pleasure lost, which is so deem\'d

Not by our feeling, but by others\' seeing:

For why should others\' false adulterate eyes

Give salutation to my sportive blood?

Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,

Which in their wills count bad what I think good?

No, I am that I am, and they that level

At my abuses reckon up their own:

I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;

By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;

  Unless this general evil they maintain,

  All men are bad and in their badness reign.

 	--William Shakespeare