"We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses."

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Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

Elsie de Wolfe

#Design Quotes #Use Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Less is more, in prose as in architecture.”

Source : DONALD HALL (1973). “WRITING WELL”
“Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union”
“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.”
“Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.”
“Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.”

Source : Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I grew up with British rock.”
“All my six husbands married me for different reasons.”
“An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.”

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