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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

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

—Jane Austen, 1813

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

—Colette, 1944

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

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

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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

—Horace, 19 BC

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
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