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Houses Quotes
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
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"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."
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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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"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."
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"Housework, if you do it right, will kill you."
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"In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds."
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"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
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"You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames."
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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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"All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone."
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"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
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"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?"
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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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"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 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."
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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
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"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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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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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals."
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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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"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."
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"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."
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"I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone."
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"You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin."
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"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
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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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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
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"Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator."
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