"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

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"At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman."

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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"A house isn't a home without the ineffable contentment of a cat with its tail folded about its feet. A cat gives mystery, charm, suggestion."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"My tent doesn't look like much but, as an estate agent might say, "It is air-conditioned and has exceptional location."

Fennel Hudson, British Author

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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Laura Ingalls Wilder said, "Home is the nicest place there is."

Kenneth Eade, American Author

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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."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."

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"Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there."

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"I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts."

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"It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter."

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"Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living."

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"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."

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"(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion."

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"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."

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