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God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

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

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC

Every house: temple, empire, school.

—Joseph Joubert, 1800

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

—William Morris, 1882

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

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

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

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

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

—Norman Douglas, 1917

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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