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A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
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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New York City
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Elsie De Wolfe Mendl
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Ella Anderson de Wolfe
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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
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I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
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a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
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This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.
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I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
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Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
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You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.
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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
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When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
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I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
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You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
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Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.
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There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
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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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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
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