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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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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."
"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."
"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
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"The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday."
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
"Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost."
"The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon."
"No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state."
"Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good."
"An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment."
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