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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Elsie de Wolfe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 20
Died: 1950
Died: July 12
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
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You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.
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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
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I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.
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