"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."

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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."

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"I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number."

Robert Indiana, American Artist

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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."

Lillie Langtry, British Actress

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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."

Edward Coke, English Businessman

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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

Italo Calvino, Italian Journalist

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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

Evan Esar, American Writer

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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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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."

Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist

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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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"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."

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"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."

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"The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden."

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"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."

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