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“Money will no doubt be obtainable; and money will buy bricks and mortar. The artist who makes the plans, and the mason who lays the stones, can be paid. But no money will buy the lost yet admirable sentiment that saw a building a poem, a poem in granite that spoke loudly to the people, a poem in marble that stood there as an immovable eternal prayer...” — Multatuli
Money will no doubt be obtainable; and money will buy bricks and mortar. The artist who makes the plans, and the mason who lays the stones, can be paid. But no money will buy the lost yet admirable sentiment that saw a building a poem, a poem in granite that spoke loudly to the people, a poem in marble that stood there as an immovable eternal prayer...