Timber Frame House

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    “Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
    When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
    Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
    Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
    The ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “Faith, I have been a truant in the law,
    And never yet could frame my will to it,
    And therefore frame the law unto my will.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A country without bordels is like a house without bathrooms.”
    —Marlene Dietrich (1904–1992)