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Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.__ J.Howard Payne

The paternal hearth that rally ing place of the affections.

Washington Irving.

He is happiest who finds peace in his home. Goethe.

Jo Adam, Paradise was home; to the good among his descendants, home is paradise..

Hare.

A house is never perfectly furnished for enjoyment unless there is a child in it rising three years old, and a kitten rising six weeks.

Southey.

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Oh, what splendor! The sea, the great, glorious sea, which rolled its great billows toward the shore, lay stretched out before him, and the sun stood aloft like a great flaming altar, there where sea and sky met; everything melted together in glow ing colors; the wood sang, and his heart sang too. All nature was a great, holy church, in which trees and floating clouds were the pillars and beams, flowers and grass the velvet carpet, and the heavens them selves the vaulted roof.

Hans Christian Andersen.

To the Teacher. Help the pupil to see the picture which Andersen

here draws.

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