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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
Explore more quotes by William Morris
"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name."
"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
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