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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"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 true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last."
"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
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