Quote#Wisdom
This may, perhaps, take place in the twentieth century, it certainly,…
Quote byWilliam Burges · 1827–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Art applied to industry: a series of lectures, 1865, p. 9; Partly cited in: The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia (19 v.) Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1983. p. 514.
English (original)
This may, perhaps, take place in the twentieth century, it certainly, as far as I can see, will not occur in the nineteenth.
— William Burges
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