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A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body
There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution
Type of the wise who soar but never roam,
True to the kindred points of heaven and home.

To a Skylark
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,
And pure religion breathing household laws.

O, Friend! I know not which way I must look
Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
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