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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

— Sai Baba

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

— Clare Boothe Luce

What does a house want to be?

— Louis Kahn

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

— Lysander Spooner

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

— James A. Michener

A house is a machine for living in.

— Le Corbusier

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

— Aristophanes

✗Opposing Perspectives

I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

— Robin Leach

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

— Samuel Johnson

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

— Bruce Barton