"To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers."
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"We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds."
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"If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture."
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"Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee."
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"I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house."
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"Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich."
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"God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house."
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"I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings."
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"My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office."
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"Actually, I'm frequently described as the UK's only translator of Korean literature, but even that isn't accurate - Agnita Tennant is UK-based, Janet Poole is British though lives in Toronto, Brother Anthony was born here though is now a naturalised Korean citizen. There's also Chi-young Kim and Sora Kim-Russell, who are younger and do fiction for commercial houses."
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"I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary."
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"It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord. I go in fear and trembling lest one of these terrible bombers gets into difficulties."
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"I have a nice house. And when somebody says it's a palace, I always feel like we're digging a little or something."
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"It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts."
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"My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?"
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"I just always knew I was going to be a star. I was always going to be rich so I could buy things for Mommy and Daddy, so that I could buy them a big house and we could have things."
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"With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up."
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"Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
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"The only person for whom the house was in any way special was Arthur Dent, and that was only because it happened to be the one he lived in."
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"He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house."
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