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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"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."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"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?"
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom."
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"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
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