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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

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A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

Marguerite Duras

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A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

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4

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce

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5

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.

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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Margaret Thatcher

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7

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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8

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?

Emily Dickinson

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9

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Joseph Conrad

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10

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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11

He makes his home where the living is best.

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12

Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Lydia Child

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13

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Charles Dickens

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14

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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15

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Helen Rowland

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16

Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

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17

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

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18

Home is where the heart is.

Pliny the Elder

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19

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Francis Bacon

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20

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Henry David Thoreau

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21

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

Primo Levi

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22

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Jerome K. Jerome

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23

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

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24

If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

John Ruskin

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25

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Colette

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26

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Samuel Johnson

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27

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

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28

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

Norman Douglas

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29

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

Michel de Montaigne

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30

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Samuel Johnson

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31

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

Frank Dane

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32

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Mark Twain

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33

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

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34

One returns to the place one came from.

Jean de La Fontaine

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35

Our country is where ever we are well off.

John Milton

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36

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

Florence King

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37

People usually are the happiest at home.

William Shakespeare

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38

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

Henry David Thoreau

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39

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

Juvenal

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40

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

Kin Hubbard

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41

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras

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42

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

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43

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

E. W. Howe

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44

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Cicero

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45

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

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46

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Winston Churchill

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47

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Henry David Thoreau

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48

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

Charles Lamb

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49

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Peter De Vries

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50

Where thou art, that is home.

Emily Dickinson

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51

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Jonson

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52

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?

Going home must be like going to render an account.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

He makes his home where the living is best.

Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

Home is where the heart is.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

It matters less to a person where they are born than where they can live.

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

One returns to the place one came from.

Our country is where ever we are well off.

People usually are the happiest at home.

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Where thou art, that is home.

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.