"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."

Home, America, Children, Englexpectation, Houses

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"A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell."

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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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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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"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"A woman's health is her capital."

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"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."

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"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

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"All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order."

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"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm."

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"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."

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"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."

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"No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man."

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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

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"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."

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