A Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried bricks are used in a wall, the stucco covering stiffens and hardens into a permanent mass, but the bricks settle and the motion caused by their shrinking prevents them from adhering to it, and they are separated from their union with it. At Utica in constructing walls they use brick only if it is dry and made five years previously, and approved as such by the authority of a magistrate.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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Quote Author

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Roman - Author
81 BC - 15

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Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

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