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I have the book this is from somewhere. The quote may relate to Tolkien's famous memory of when his mother told him that it had to be 'great green dragon' rather than 'green great dragon'.

There will be exceptions to this rule, but probably very few ('absolutely' is too strong in application to a rule; principles are exceptionless, rules are not). Also, there are of course other kinds of adjective, e.g. those used to qualify abstract nouns, e.g. 'essential' in 'essential quality' isn't covered by the above list. It's a good list, but not exhaustive.

The order is also not really a question of 'word order' but of logic, i.e. a progression towards what is most substantial. For instance, your opinion of whether something is lovely or not is more distant from the object than accidental, contingent, and necessary properties. That the dragon is green is more substantial than the fact that it is great, e.g. it would have been green as a hatchling, too, and only grew to be great over time. You could conceivably have whittling knives with different-coloured blades, and so on.