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"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."
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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."

"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."

"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions."

"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."

"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."
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