"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."

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"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."

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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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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

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"Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."

Evan Esar, American Writer

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"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"Nothing of the kind; they do all these things in their houses and sheds, with common charcoal fires, and a quantity of straw to stop up the crevices in the doors and windows."

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"For sheer sexiness, a man must be beautiful. Funny. yes. Clever, no."

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"I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook."

Nature

"I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half."

Happiness

"Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon."

Celebrity

"I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully."

Time

"I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows."

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"My own parents loved each other very much."

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"The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things."

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