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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

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

—Rebecca West, 1912

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1771

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

—Norman Douglas, 1917

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

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC
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