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I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

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Elsie De Wolfe's Popular Quotes

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

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What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that…

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It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.

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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

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You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

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I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

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