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"I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suckers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been."
"House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad."
"The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship."
"Every house is a mad-house at some time or another."
"As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep"
"Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind. I carve out rough answers as best I can. I have even drawn them on the walls. It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house."
"When it comes to making decisions, I will come down on the side of Nebraska every time. If I have to choose between the White House and the farmhouse, I choose the farmhouse."
"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."
"That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house."
"This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more."
"A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches."
"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages."
"At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter."
"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."
"There is much money given to be laughed at, though the purchasers don't know it; witness A.'s fine horse, and B.'s fine house."
"A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house."
"In our house, some of our favourite recipes just happen to be vegetarian, but I still enjoy meat and I believe very much in meat."
"Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature."
"Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow."
"I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids."
