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"When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone upon stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that people will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, “See! This our parents did for us.”"

John Ruskin

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Это такой "ДИАЛОГ У НОВОГОДНЕЙ ЕЛКИ" 19в, как я понимаю? :)
Лев Николаевич, кстати, его любил цитировать.

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да-да, я б иначе о нём и не узнал, как только через Л.Н., не из "Лолиты" ж. :)
но замечательно сказано - очень выразительно, и при этом пафосно. на "девиз" не тянет, но запоминается. :)