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> [“It was funny, he thought, how the ruins of the past shaped everything that came after.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-s-a-corey/it-was-funny-he-thought-how-the-ruins-of-the-past-shaped-everything/)

[James S.A. Corey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-s-a-corey/)

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> [The apartments of the rich are cabinets of curiosities: a conglomeration of classical antiquity, gothic, renaissance; Louis XIII... Something from every century but our own, a predicament that has arisen in no other period... so that we seem to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-de-musset/the-apartments-of-the-rich-are-cabinets-of-curiosities-a/)

[Alfred de Musset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-de-musset/)

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