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When, in architecture, one uses a fixed unit and combinations of it, to produce harmony, the effect should be most striking and apparent... as it is in music by the measured beat and in poetry by the cadence and rhythm.

— Ernest Flagg Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

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A master in art need not go into the highways and byways for affects; he knows the straight course and follows it.

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Simplicity and Dignity are so nearly related that they may be considered together.

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The system of building, described in this work, is intended for repetition.

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These houses are intended to have stone walls.

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There have always seemed to the writer sound reasons for using the module system in architectural design.

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