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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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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."
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"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."
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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."
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"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."
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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?"
Life
"A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works."
Imagination
"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."
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."
Man
"No man is good enough to be another's master."
Man
"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
Art
"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."
Future
"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
Happiness
"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
Houses
"I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few."
Art
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