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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

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

"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."

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled."

"The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life."

"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."

"America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live."
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