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"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."

"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 am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

"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."

"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."

"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?"
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"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."

"Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either."
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