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• In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one… — Adolf Hitler
• All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if… — Diana Vreeland
• What the Londoner sees in his mind’s eye is that cluster of towers and pinnacles seen from Pentonville Hill and outlined against… — John Betjeman
• The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So… — Heinrich Heine
• These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we… — Jimmy Buffett
• The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a… — A. Hunter Dupree
• The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur… — Thomas Jefferson
• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde

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