"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."

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"The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home."

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"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 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

"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

"Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Where thou art, that is home."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Home, Art

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

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."

John F. Kennedy, American President

Home, Success, Hope, Adversity

"Home is- Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Home, Love, Heart, Mind

"I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Home is where the love is and where the heart wants to dwell with ease."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose."

Enthusiasm

"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

"The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor."

Abstinence

"The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies."

Humor

"Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy."

Wisdom

"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."

Books

"The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?"

God

"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."

Books

"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

"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