"There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile."
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"There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse."
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"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow."
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"Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more."
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"I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life."
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"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."
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"By happy fraternity amongst themselves, the embodied beings get the supreme peace. Then all this earth shines like one house. When the men, the embodied beings treat each other with equal respect and have good brotherly feelings amongst themselves, great peace and harmony abound. Then all this earth shines like one house. The whole world shines like the one dwelling house of the entire human family."
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"I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible."
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"We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom."
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"The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king."
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"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."
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"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
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"Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it."
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"We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots."
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"Messy stuff irritates me. I don't like messiness. If you leave something around my house, I'll tell you to move it back, clean it up, throw it in the trash - don't matter, just get rid of it. I need stuff neat, organized. And once I start cleaning stuff, I don't stop until it's done. Otherwise I'm irritated all day."
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"A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin."
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"I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal."
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"Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . ."
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"Good shoes - they're the ultimate finishing touch. In fact, we actually joke in my family that your shoes have to be shined before you can leave the house."
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"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster."
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