“In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
“There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.”
— H. G. Wells, book A Modern Utopia
Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 3, sect. 8
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