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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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"We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
"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."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"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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"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
"Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise."
"These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished."
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
"By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination."
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
"No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service."
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