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

"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."

"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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