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    The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it -- can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

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A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

by May Sarton Found in: Home Quotes,
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A house is not a home.

A house is not a home.

by Polly Adler Found in: Home Quotes,
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What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head,
Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;
Where read more

What if in Scotland's wilds we viel'd our head,
Where tempests whistle round the sordid bed;
Where the rug's two-fold use we might display,
By night a blanket, and a plaid by day.

by Oliver Goldsmith Found in: Home Quotes,
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I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that
grovel--
Folks prefer in fact a hovel read more

I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that
grovel--
Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

by Charles Stuart Calverley Found in: Home Quotes,
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At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant read more

At length his lonely cot appears in view,
Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

by Robert Burns Found in: Home Quotes,
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A house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in.

by Le Corbusier Found in: Home Quotes, Houses Quotes,
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

by Channing Pollock Found in: Home Quotes,
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When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that read more

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

by Tecumseh Found in: Home Quotes,
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

by George Bernard Shaw Found in: Home Quotes,
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