Emily Bronte Quotes

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

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• The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.

  

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• Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

  

  Emily Bronte
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