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Men are merriest when they are from home.

—William Shakespeare, 1599

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856

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

—Colette, 1944

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1903

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

—Rose Macaulay, 1925

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

—Charles Dickens, 1843

Every house: temple, empire, school.

—Joseph Joubert, 1800

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

—Rebecca West, 1912

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

—Ptahhotep, c. 2400 BC

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

—Publilius Syrus, 50 BC
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