burnt quotes

   Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  Informal talk,  Architectural  Association School of Architecture, 28 Nov. Collected in Writings (1979).

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