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• Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple
• Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort. — Leigh Hunt
• Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating… — Agnes Repplier
• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground… — J F C Fuller
• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,… — Winston Churchill
• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us… — Mary Howitt
• Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling.… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. — Douglas William Jerrold
• But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The… — Kate Morton
• The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on… — Kenneth Grahame

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