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One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

—Rebecca West, 1912

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

—Maya Angelou, 1986

An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

—William Morris, 1882

Every house: temple, empire, school.

—Joseph Joubert, 1800

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

—Horace, 19 BC
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