Quotes with passers-by

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• All philanthropy... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

  Ellen Key
  Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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• The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

  H.G. Wells
  British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  Bernard Levin
  English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• inconvenience
• architecture
• contemplate
• incidental
• spreading
• gathering

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