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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"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."
"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 go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"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."
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."
"In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature."
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