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One of the best ways to economize in building is to economize on ugliness. ...Nothing can be greater service in avoiding ugliness than a knowledge of the principles of design.

— 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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