“ Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ”
- Lord Clark Kenneth- Copy
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“ The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Of the parralels between the railways and the church both had their heyday in the mid-nineteenth century; both own a great deal of Gothic-style architecture which is expensive to maintain; both are regularly assailed by critics; and both are firmly convinced that they are the best means of getting man to his ultimate destination. ”
- Reverend W. Awdry- Copy
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“ Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list — the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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