For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
—Jane Austen, 1813
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Every house: temple, empire, school.
—Joseph Joubert, 1800Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
—Rebecca West, 1912The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
—Samuel Johnson, 1771A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
—Rose Macaulay, 1925Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.
—Fran Lebowitz, 1981People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.
—Margaret Mahy, 1985An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.
—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC