I do not know whether it may have the same operation upon other men th… — Essays

Essays — Michel de Montaigne

I do not know whether it may have the same operation upon other men that it has upon me, but when I hear our architects thunder out their bombast words of pilasters, architraves, and cornices, of the Corinthian and Doric orders, and suchlike jargon, my imagination is presently possessed with the palace of Apollidon; when, after all, I find them but the paltry pieces of my own kitchen door.

Place: CHAPTER LI · ¶1666
License: Public domain · Source
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