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title: "3 House Kept Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 House Kept quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best House Kept sayings and thoughts."
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> [Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest;it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/housekeeping-is-not-beautiful-it-cheers-and-raises-neither-the/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/the-house-kept-its-own-time-like-the-old-fashioned-grandfather-clock/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a16/haruki-murakami-21_chunks_the-house-kept-its-own-time-like-the-old_1655279.jpg)

> [“But after all, while she was in the house, I kept myself in hand. And the worst of it all is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/but-after-all-while-she-was-in-the-house-i-kept-myself-in-hand-and/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/leo-tolstoy-55_kept_but-after-all-while-she-was-in-the-house_2704518.png)

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