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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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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."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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"If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural."
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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."
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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
Truth
"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
Knowledge
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
Justice
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Age
"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses."
Man
"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
Lie
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Humor
"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
Happiness
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
Experience
"The worst men often give the best advice."
Man
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