I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay. Those people are my home, and every time I come home, it reminds me that there's something to be said for being in the spotlight, but it can never be a whole part of me.
Copy QuoteHave nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
Copy Quote View & ShareA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Copy Quote View & ShareLove begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareI kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.
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