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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. – Francis Bacon

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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. – Francis Bacon

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. – Joni Mitchell

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Marrying a man is like buying something youve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesnt always go with everything else in the house. – Jean Kerr

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Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. Thats but a hint of what well feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally – and permanently – be at home in a way that defies description. – Charles Stanley

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Home is any four walls that enclose the right person. – Helen Rowland

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