"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home."

Home, Love, Folly, Mankind

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"Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home."

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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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"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

Home, Comfort, Location, Life

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

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Belonging, Truth, Attachment

"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

Home, Joy, Kindness, Laughter

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

Kenneth Eade, American Author

Home, Comfort, Safety, Belonging

"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

Home, Books, Fire, Property

"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

Edith Wharton, American Author

Home, Identity, Memory, Longing, Isolation

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action."

Man

"I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process."

Mistake

"Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves."

Inspirational

"Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days."

Leadership

"Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister."

Time

"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels."

Success

"If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing."

Writing

"I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe."

People

"And I'm a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That's the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War."

War

"But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience."

Experience