“The most economical way of obtaining good results is to apply the great, fundamental principles of art; and depend on them for beauty, rather than upon the use of either applied ornament or more expensive materials… much better results are likely to accrue from truth than falsehood, and from architectural [rather] than archaeological methods.”

—  Ernest Flagg

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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)

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