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title: "6 House Rooms Quotes by 6 authors"
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> [But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-wharton/but-i-have-sometimes-thought-that-a-woman-s-nature-is-like-a-great/)

[Edith Wharton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-wharton/)

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> [“Love is a house with many rooms, this room to feed the love, this one to entertain it, this one to clean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/love-is-a-house-with-many-rooms-this-room-to-feed-the-love-this-one/)

[Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e5/yann-martel-395_communication_love-is-a-house-with-many-rooms-this-roo_940050.jpg)

> [Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-oliver/instead-of-taking-the-reader-by-the-hand-and-running-him-down-the/)

[Mary Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-oliver/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b46/mary-oliver-570_alone_instead-of-taking-the-reader-by-the-hand_1154150.jpg)

> [I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dov-davidoff/i-ve-never-understood-why-anybody-makes-a-big-deal-about-mansions-it/)

[Dov Davidoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dov-davidoff/)

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> [There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumer-godden/there-is-an-indian-proverb-that-says-that-everyone-is-a-house-with/)

[Rumer Godden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumer-godden/)

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> [I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilynne-robinson/i-like-to-read-in-my-own-house-in-any-of-the-rooms-i-always-mean-to/)

[Marilynne Robinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilynne-robinson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/447/marilynne-robinson-602_almost_i-like-to-read-in-my-own-house-in-any-of_2678640.png)

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