My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to
the house, and not the house an ornament to the owner.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
the house, and not the house an ornament to the owner.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
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