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“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.”
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- Source:
- Ibid., No. 14.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a9241ee63a209fb540091ff192ae8ff0e0a31c65724782554946cdade5e33d13
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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