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A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
--Elsie de Wolfe
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
--Elsie de Wolfe
Don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.
--Elsie de Wolfe
I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
--Elsie de Wolfe
It is not chic to be too chic.
--Elsie de Wolfe
Never complain, never explain.
--Elsie de Wolfe
Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
--Elsie de Wolfe
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
--Elsie de Wolfe
The smallest part is worthy of the whole.
--Elsie de Wolfe
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
--Elsie de Wolfe
When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
--Elsie de Wolfe
You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
--Elsie de Wolfe
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