“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”
Source: The Pillars of the Earth
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“Low walls are much less expensive to build than high ones”
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
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Maxim 1222, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)
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