"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Home, Books, Fire, Property

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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

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"Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?"

Bill Maher, American Comedian

Home, Restraint, Right, Trade

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Home, Love, Feet

"A home without books is a body without soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Home, Soul, Body, Books

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Truth, Belonging, Acceptance

"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Home, Loss, Belonging, Emotion

"A home without a cat - and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat - may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"

Mark Twain, American Author

Home, Cat, Pet, Loyalty

"I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Home, Day, Healing, Public, Shadow

"Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home."

Alice Walker, American Author

Home,

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Home, Past, Present

"Don't come home a failure."

Ty Cobb, American Athlete

Home, Failure

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"The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason."

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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."

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"Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

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"The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."

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"I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."

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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

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