Christopher Wren Quotes

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

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• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

  

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• I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

  

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• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

  

  Christopher Wren
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