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“The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.”

People Firsts Matter House Position Building Habit Taste Chosen Holland Building Houses

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally.”

Made Ideas House Habit Members Prison Proportion Parliament Distressing Members Of Parliament

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels: The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds…

“Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.”

People Should House Poor Streets Return Habit Towns Court Crowds Contrary Plague Cleanliness Our Town

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population

“I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.”

Knows Persons Christian Desire Father House Christ Church Rooms Atheism Habit Positive Atheism Convinced Mourning Departure Splendor Mansions Ardent

Book:The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

Source: The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc

“In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.”

Men Way House Term Wealth Poor Known Land Food Amount Habit Cooking Stores One Way Guarantees Culinary Wealthy Estates Medieval Peppers Pantry Medieval Times

Author:Waverley Root

“I don't know if this sounds bad, but I am set. I don't spend my money. I don't buy cars or have an expensive drug habit. The only thing I've ever bought with the money I've made is my house.”

Ifs Knows Made House Sound Car Habit Drug Expensive

Author:CM Punk

“Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.”

Giving Feels Hard Home House Morning Like You Habit Get Up Going To Work Bad Habits

Author:Kate Beaton

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

“Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.”

People House Change Media Television Habit Invention Plumbing Indoor Plumbing

Author:Alfred Hitchcock

“It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.”

House Mines Habit Pockets Pencils

Book:Collected Prose

Source: Collected Prose

“The only way to permanently install a new habit is to direct so much energy toward it that the old one slips away like an unwelcome house guest.”

Way House Energy Habit Direct Slips Guests Unwelcome New Habits House Guests

Author:Robin Sharma

“Man doesn't change. He keeps his habits. Instinctively, all those people found the same corner for their kitchen. To build a city, don't men choose the same sites? Under cities you always find other cities; other churches under churches, and other houses under houses.”

People Men Found House Church Cities Habit Corners Kitchen Site

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch House of Cards compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom! She's honestly that good, and, also, her character is the exact opposite of who she is in real life.”

Thinking Real Character Film House Strange Mom Habit First Time My Mom Honestly Real Life

Author:Dylan Frances Penn

“I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.”

Littles I Can Ideas House Building Habit Sells Architecture Supposed To Be Hawaii Colorado

Author:Trey Parker

“It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.”

Wells Matter Facts Universe House Space Numbers Habit Pure Window Logic Harmony Rounds Atheist Giants Turtles Discs Smashing Vetinari

Book:The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)

Source: The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)