"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

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"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

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Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"A home without books is a body without soul."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

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