"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."

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"It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work."

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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

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Mark Twain, American Author

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"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

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"Where thou art, that is home."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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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

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"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."

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"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."

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

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