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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

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

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

—Norman Douglas, 1917

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.

—Fran Lebowitz, 1981

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

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

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

—William Morris, 1882

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

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

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

—Horace, 19 BC

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC
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