Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Ernest Hemingway
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- Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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- The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.