Norman Douglas:
"Pagodas are expensive to build, and this young Amazon was doubtless rich; no richer, I daresay, than some of our English lady-millionaires. The late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, for instance, was famous for her munificence in endowing public buildings.
"That temples should be used for the preservation of trophies is a universal trait. We need only think of St. George's Chapel or Westminster Abbey. Under the Greeks and Romans they served a similar purpose, besides being both banks and museums, and brothels."
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