"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

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"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

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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

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

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

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L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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Fennel Hudson, British Author

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

Stephen King, American Author

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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

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Kenneth Eade, American Author

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"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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"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

Edith Wharton, American Author

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"Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing."

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