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Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
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Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
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It was a great holiness, a religion, as all great loves must be.
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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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Light, air and comfort — these three things I must always have in a room.
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Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
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Don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.
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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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Don't run away with the idea that it is easy to cook simply. It requires a long apprenticeship.
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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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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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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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I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
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You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
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What a joyous thing is color! How influenced we all are by it, even if we are unconscious of how our sense of restfulness has been brought about.
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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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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 we may grow to understand.
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I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint, comfortable chairs with lights beside them, open fires on the hearth and flowers wherever they "belong," mirrors and sunshine in all rooms.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
December 20, 1859
Died:
July 12, 1950
(aged 90)
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