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Letter "H" » houses
«Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.»
«People who live in glass houses don't have much of a sex life»
«They value themselves much upon their antiquity: The ancient race of their houses, and families, and the like; and above all, upon their ancient heroes: their King Caractacus Owen ap Tudor, Prince Lewellin, and the like noblemen and princes of Britis»
Author: Daniel Defoe
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and the like, antiquities, family values, houses, noblemen, Owen, prince, princes, the like, Tudor
«Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!»
«No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, no castles, nor manors, nor old country-houses, nor parsonages, nor thatched cottages nor ivied ruins; no cathedrals, nor abbeys, nor little Norman churches; no great Universities nor public schools / no Oxford, nor Eton, nor Harrow; no literature, no novels, no museums, no pictures, no political society, no sporting class / no Epsom nor Ascot! Some such list as that might be drawn up of the absent things in American life.»
Author: Henry James
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abbey, absent, American Army, American elder, American Life, American literature, aristocracies, aristocracy, ascot, castles, cathedrals, churches, church school, clergy, cottages, country house, court, diplomatic, diplomatic service, drawn, Eton, gentlemen, Great Court, Great Houses, harrow, harrowed, harrowing, harrows, houses, ivied, list, loyalty, museums, Norman, novels, old country, Old Court, old school, oxford, palaces, public schools, ruins, schools, sovereign, sporting, thatch, thatched, thatching, The Harrow, universities
«Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.»
Author: Bible
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congregation, congregations, cut off, houses, Israel, leaven, leavened, Seven Days, Strange Land
«There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: / The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; / The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; / The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; / The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.»
Author: Bible
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ants, bands, exceeding, feeble, folk, four things, houses, palaces, rocks, spider, summer house, The Ants, The Rocks, The Spider
«People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones»
«Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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Pride
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aiming, aspiring, at the best, fallen angel, houses, rebel
«Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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blowing up, blown up, blows, blow out, blow over, built, certainties, damage, damaged, damages, doubt, houses, sand, sanded, sanding, subject, subjecting, subject to, wind
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