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

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1856

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

—Horace, 19 BC

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

—Colette, 1944

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

—Rebecca West, 1912

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

—George Bernard Shaw, 1903

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

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

—Jane Austen, 1813

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1771

God walks among the pots and pans.

—Saint Teresa of Ávila, c. 1582
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