George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve."
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Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"For nothing was simply one thing."
Henry James
Author
"She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!"
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"A lighthouse is more useful than a church."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision."
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