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"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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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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"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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"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."
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"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
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"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."
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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
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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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"On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them."
London

"I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress."
Happiness

"The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges."
Work

"Feed the dogs. I hate to hear them barking like that."
Dogs

"My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself."
England

"Why in the world would anyone want to photograph an old woman like me?"
Old

"Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over."
England

"The most lasting and pure gladness comes to me from my gardens."
Gardening

"I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others."
Houses

"My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France."
France
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