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"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."

"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."

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

"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 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."

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

"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?"

"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."

"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
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