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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Dome

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian Dome, outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it.
Colley Cibber.—Richard III., Act III. Scene 3, altered. (Eratostratus was the “youth,” and Chersiphron the “architect.”)