There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
There are good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be.
Overnight I became a cottage industry.
I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.
I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
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