"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule."

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"The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Home, Friendship, Enemy, Life

"I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home."

Cat Stevens, British Musician

Home, Business, Christian, Luxury

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Home, Work, Mother, Being

"The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest."

Al Franken, American Comedian

Home, Politics, Network, Senate

"I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

Home, Time, Games

"Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious-every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Home, Happiness, Life, Truth, Power

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Home, Artist, Europe, Paris

"Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior."

Cathy Rindner Tempelsman, American Author

Home, Behavior, Being, Limits

"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."

Esther Williams, American Actress

Home, Time, Eyes, Light

"My husband gave up all his work to stay at home with the kids, and we split all the duties at home. I do all the boring stuff - like pay the bills, and he does all the exercising for both of us, which I'm very grateful for... I thank him for it regularly."

Erika Slezak, American Actress

Home, Work, Husband, Kids

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"Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte."

Climate

"A military road led from this point to Fort Leavenworth, and for many miles the farms and cabins of the Delawares were scattered at short intervals on either hand."

Military

"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."

Geography

"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."

Revolution

"We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail."

Now

"Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures."

Art

"It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below."

Nostalgia

"Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses."

Being

"Four men are missing; R., Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo, and have not yet made their appearance; whether killed or lost, we cannot tell."

Man

"Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect."

Climate