For a mans house is his castle, & domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium; for where shall a man be safe, if it be not in his house?


Sir Edward Coke

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DAVID PREZIOSI
I want my family to be living in a safe house.
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OM BENIWAL
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A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
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It is a lie.
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It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
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BIBLE
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DIOGENES
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MATTHEW SIMPSON
The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
I'm his in-house playboy bunny.. I walk around the house naked in heels just for him.
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He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house.
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DIDO
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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I'm not an Emontional, but how???
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
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The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
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More of me comes out when I improvise.
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The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
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We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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EDWARD ABBEY
High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple a...
EDWARD ABBEY
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
EDWARD ABBEY
England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te...
EDWARD ABBEY
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i...
EDWARD BELLAMY
For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope...
EDWARD MORRIS
I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ...
EDWARD ABBEY
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.
EDWARD LEAR
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk...
EDWARD TELLER
Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
EDWARD KENNEDY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ...
EDWARD ABBEY
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
EDWARD GIBBON
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN