"I have a guest house because I don't want people in my home."
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"Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots."
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"Money...buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors.... The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is."
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"God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison."
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"I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits; they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough."
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"The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent."
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"I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going."
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"I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience."
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"I'd give Donald Trump an "F." This has been the worst 100-day transition in my lifetime. And I was born during Franklin D. Roosevelt's term. This White House is by far the worst-run I have ever seen, certainly in modern times."
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"The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God."
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"In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep."
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"It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced."
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"Sabrina turned back to the house and saw the horrible truth- a pair of legs was sticking out from beneath it and they were wearing a pari of shiny silver shoes with a remarkable red tint to them. She suddenly realized they hadn't just entered a story. They had entered one of the most famous stories ever told. "Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferryport Landing anymore."
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"There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough."
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"Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin."
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"We can plant a house, we can build a tree."
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"So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb."
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"If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words."
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"Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed."
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"A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at."
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