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Every house: temple, empire, school.

—Joseph Joubert, 1800

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

—Jane Austen, 1813

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

—Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1895

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

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

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

—Norman Douglas, 1917

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

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC

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

—William Morris, 1882

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

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

—Rebecca West, 1912
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