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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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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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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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"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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"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
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"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
Order
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
Architecture
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
Civilization
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
Houses
"In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world."
Gardening
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."
First
"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
Architecture
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown."
Home
"What people want, above all, is order."
People
"Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England."
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