"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."

Home, Life, Idea, Rest

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"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."

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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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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Home, Imperfection, Hope, Acceptance

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

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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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

Home, Comfort, Cats, Mystery

"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

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

Stephen King, American Author

Home, Belonging, Truth, Attachment

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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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."

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

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"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."

Age

"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."

Manners

"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."

Politics

"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."

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"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Fact

"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."

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"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."

Life

"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."

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"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."

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"He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors."

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