"I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life."
"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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Source: Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub
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