• Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

    Marcus Vitruvius Pollio: Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.
    "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book I. Chapter II, Sec. 5, 15BC.
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