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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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21.11.02

First trained as a botanist, Christopher Dresser believed that geometry was the fundamental law of nature. He based his new decorative vocabulary on the "structure" of plants and rejected any references to styles of the past. Through teaching at the national School of Design in London and through his internationally reprinted publications, Dresser became one of the most influential designers of the nineteenth century

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