Famous quotes containing the words house and/or counts:
“[They] hired a large house as a receptacle for gentlewomen, who either had no fortunes, or so little that it would not support them. For these they made the most comfortable institution [and] provided [them] with all conveniences for rural amusements, a library, musical instruments, and implements for various works.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.”
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915)