True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism. - Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau: "True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism."

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Architects	Architectural	Beauty	Better
Called	Common	Core	Country
Dilettantism	Heard	Hence	Idea
Least	Little	Making	Necessity
Ornaments	Perhaps	Point	Possessed
Revelation	True	Truth	Very
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