"No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement."
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"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."
"Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement."
"He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things. My mother, likewise, was sewing and doing activities that often take place in a household."