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"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's 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."
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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."
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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."
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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."
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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."
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"Home is where they want you to stay longer."
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"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."
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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."
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"Home was wherever they were together, and it felt good."
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"Home was truly the best place he could possibly be, but, alas, was not an available option."
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"When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."
Life
"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."
Home
"The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it."
Company
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
Books
"Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves."
Time
"There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others."
Man
"Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to."
Men
"You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill."
Beauty
"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
Books
"The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit."
Humor
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