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If we copy, the thing never looks right [and] the same occurs with regard to those buildings which do not profess to be copies; both they and the copies want spirit. They are dead bodies... We are at our wits.
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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.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.... Blushes are the sign of guilt; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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December 2, 1827
Died:
April 20, 1881
(aged 53)
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