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Refinement. While the possession of this quality is due, in the first instance, to education, it is also largely a matter of temperament.

— 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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