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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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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."

"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."

"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."

"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."

"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."

"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."

"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?"

"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"


"I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order."


"Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it."


"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."


"On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings."
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