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For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it. - Bible, Luke (ch. XIV, v. 28) Old houses mended, Cost little less than new, before they're ended. - Colley Cibber, Prologue to the Double Gallant (l. 15) All below is strength; and all above is grace. - John Dryden Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. - Henry Kett Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. - William Shakespeare In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem. - William Shenstone
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