"I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread."
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"In my house, neither my wife nor my daughter are impressed that I'm on television, and they remind me of that frequently."
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"At the end of a dinner at my house, my kitchen sink is filled with dishes and there's nothing pretty about the garbage."
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"Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)"
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"When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened."
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"I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall."
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"When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling."
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"I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house."
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"House prices just soared beyond - beyond reason in many places and they got financed in silly ways, and people lied about loans, all kinds of accesses entered into it. But that is what - that is the single biggest cause of why we're here."
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"Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature."
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"Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark."
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"Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm."
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"I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation."
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"You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?"
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"The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it."
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"The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times."
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"He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece."
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"I will be master of what is mine own: She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing."
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"Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?"
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"A plague on both your houses."
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