King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Ibid.
I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind. Such dwellings are the nursery of all domestic virtues, and without a becoming home the exercise of those virtues is impossible.
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