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I have just been up in the interior of Siam to some amazing ruins,…
Quote byGeorge Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston · 1859–1925
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Miss Leiter (14 January 1893), quoted in The Earl of Ronaldshay, The Life of Lord Curzon: Being the Authorized Biography of George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. (1928), p. 192.
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I have just been up in the interior of Siam to some amazing ruins, the finest in the world. It is a place called Angkor, and there a race that has since perished came some 1,700 years ago from India, founded a mighty empire and built palaces and temples that rival those of Nineveh or Karnak. Now they are buried in a tropical forest, and one has to cut a path with a billhook to see their ruins.
— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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