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«If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.»

William Morris (1834-1896)

William Morris, The Beauty of Life, a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (1880-02-19), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878- 1881 (1882).