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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."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
"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."
"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 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."
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
Explore more quotes by Edmund Burke
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
"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."
"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."
"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."
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
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