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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."
"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."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
"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."
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"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."
"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
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