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A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames.
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'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
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'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
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'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
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'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.
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A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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A house is a machine for living in.
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