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God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

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

—Horace, 19 BC

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

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

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

—Norman Douglas, 1917

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

—William Morris, 1882

Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

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
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