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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
"We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
Explore more quotes by William Morris
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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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