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you know follies (IE pretend ancient ruins built by 18/19th century english aristocrats, to make their estate seem more ancient), did they actually have the desired effect at the the time, or did people back then find the idea just as silly and vain as we do?

by /u/grapp in /r/AskHistorians

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