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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about affair

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

Quote by Glenn Close about wealth

But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses, let us count our spoons.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about vice, virtue

Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.

Quote by Flann O'Brien about books, people

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.

Quote by Francis Parkman about being

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

Quote by Francis Parkman about country, home, house, being

In 1992, I completed a three week season at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where I played each night to packed houses.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about season, night

I was born on Google and I've learnt to visit the men's houses with the look.

Quote by Ionuț Caragea about internet, man

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

Quote by Knut Hamsun about solitude, state, happiness, mind, man