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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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"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."
"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."
"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 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 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."
"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."
"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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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
"There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth."
"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."
"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"."
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