"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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"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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"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."

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"I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink."

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"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."

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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."

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"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."

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"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."

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"The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature."

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"The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition."

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"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."

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"The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone."

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"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."

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