"Today the tyrant rules not by club or fist, but disguised as a market researcher, he shepherds his flocks in the ways of utility and comfort."

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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."

Stephen King, American Author

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"He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay."

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Comfort, Childhood, Security, Nostalgia

"In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead."

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"The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."

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Comfort, Pleasure, Liberty, Fire

"I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Comfort, Safety, Night, Peace

"Her heart longed for some ark into which it could fly and be at rest. Rough or smooth she did not care, so long as it was warm."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Comfort, Rest, Peace, Desire

"Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against his cheek. From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity."

George Orwell, British Author

Comfort, Peace, Reading, Solitude

"Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!"

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Comfort, Faith, Hope, Divine, Support

"With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Comfort, Faith, Strength, Resilience

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"If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be."

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