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Housework is
what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done
it.
-- Evan Esar
There is no
sanctuary of virtue like home.
-- Edward Everett
1794-1865, American
Statesman, Scholar
Construed as
turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you
make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of
buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a
schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you
were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your
latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid,
even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic
and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art
can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.
-- Richard Ford
1944-, American Author
Home is the
place where, when you have to go there, They have to take
you in.
-- Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet
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Estate agents.
You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The
first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round
about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting
beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam
the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and
kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to
them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate
agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and
surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them,
you'd be mad not to loathe them.
-- Stephen Fry
He is the
happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his
home.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
Be he a king
or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
One never
reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the
whole world looks like home for a time.
-- Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss
Novelist, Poet
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