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“In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.”

Water Century Shapes Filled Folly Goddess Charming Royal Corpses Tanks Nineteenth Century Lighthouse Miniatures Skyscraper Domes Lanterns Gilded Gods And Goddesses Mausoleum Parthenon

Author:Brendan Gill

“Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.”

Men Earth Values Given Parent Water Opinion Gold Contrary Useless Vain Best Things Abundance Folly Silver Scarcity All The Best Gold And Silver

Book:Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

Source: Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia