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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."
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"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 believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"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."
"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
"Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world."
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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