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§ XVIII. These four rules are all that are necessary for general criticism; and observe that these are only semi-imperative, rules of permission, not of compulsion. Thus Law 1 asserts that the slender shaft may have greater excess of capital than the thick shaft; but it need not, unless the architect chooses; his thick shafts must have small excess, but his slender ones need not have large.
John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3)
Good manners and correct motor form generally, as well as skill, are the most economic ways of doing things; but this is the age of wasteful ways, awkwardness mannerisms, tensions that are a constant leakage of vital energy, perhaps semi-imperative acts, contortions, quaint movements, more elaborated than in childhood and often highly anesthetic and disagreeable, motor cooerdinations that will need laborious decomposition later.
G. Stanley Hall - Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
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