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A world of strife shut out, a world of love shut in.
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An arbor which shades when the sunshine of prosperity becomes too
dazzling; a harbor where the human bark finds shelter in time of storm.
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Home is the blossom of which heaven is the fruit.
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Home is a person's estate obtained without injustice, kept without
disquietude; a place where time is spent without repentance, and which is
ruled by justice, mercy, and love.
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A hive in which, like the industrious bee, youth garners the sweets and
memories of life for age to meditate and feed upon.
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The best place for a married man after business hours.
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Home is the coziest, kindliest, sweetest place in all the world, the scene
of our purest earthly joys and deepest sorrows.
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The place where the great are sometimes small, and the small often great.
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The father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world.
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The jewel casket containing the most precious of all jewels--domestic
happiness.
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Where you are treated best and grumble most.
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The center of our affections, around which our heart's best wishes twine.
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A popular but paradoxical institution, in which woman works in the absence
of man, and man rests in the presence of woman.
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A working model of heaven, with real angels in the form of mothers and
wives.
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Having offered a prize for the best definition of "Home," London
_Tit-Bits_ recently received more than five thousand answers.
Among those which were adjudged the best were the definitions printed
above.