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    I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is read more

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body

by Margaret Fuller Found in: Houses Quotes,
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Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

by Francis Bacon, Sr. Found in: Houses Quotes,
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

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Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

by Henry Van Dyke Found in: Culture Quotes,
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

by Henry Ward Beecher Found in: Culture Quotes,
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children read more

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

by Horace Mann Found in: Houses Quotes,
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A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in.

by Le Corbusier Found in: Home Quotes, Houses Quotes,
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A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

A culture is made -- or destroyed -- by its articulate voices.

by Ayn Rand Found in: Culture Quotes, Vision Quotes,
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People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

by Elizabeth Aston Found in: Houses Quotes,
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