John Prebble Quotes

John Edward Curtis Prebble, FRSL, OBE, was an English journalist, novelist, documentarian and popular historian. He is best known for his studies of Scottish history. Wikipedia

✵ 23. June 1915 – 30. January 2001

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John Prebble Quotes

“Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.”

John Prebble

John Prebble, in Disaster at Dundee http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WSxIAAAAMAAJ, 1956. p. 16.

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