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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

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

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

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

—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582

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

Every house: temple, empire, school.

—Joseph Joubert, 1800

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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856
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