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Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

—Samuel Johnson, 1771

For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

—Jane Austen, 1813

People 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, 1985

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

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

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC

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

—Colette, 1944

An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.

—Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840
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