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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Isaac Disraeli

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
Madeleine Albright

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
Henry James

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.
Buenaventura Durruti

Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them.
Leonard Maltin

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
Francois Mauriac

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Ansel Adams

Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.
Horace

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
Georg Buchner

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
Aaron Sorkin

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau

You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
Robert Owen

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