Famous quotes containing the words house and/or commons:
“A mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law in one house are like two cats in a bag.”
—Yiddish Proverb.
“[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; which would be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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