dwell quotes

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'The Copper Beeches'.

   My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But that he means to dwell therein. What house more stately hath there been, Or can be, than is Man? to whose creation All things are in decay.

-Herbert, George
'Man', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Palace of Art', stanza1, l.1^2.

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