"It looked something like a pen wiper and……" — P.G. Wodehouse

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• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the… — Charles Dickens
• When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both… — John Ruskin
• The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. — Washington Irving
• We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. — Alexander Eliot
• Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only… — John O'Donohue
• Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are… — David Lloyd George
• Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. — John Milton
• If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. — George Stillman Hillard
• Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The… — William Wordsworth
• A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. — Unknown Author
• Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or… — Lewis Mumford

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