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“The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.”

Quote by Lew Wallace

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Lew Wallace was an American statesman, soldier, and author, best known for his novel 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1885. He served as a Union general during the American Civil War and later as the Governor of the New Mexico Territory, involved in various diplomatic missions and instrumental in the establishment of the Kingdom of Hawaii. more

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