All GEORGE ELIOT Quotes about “Home”

“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
“He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.”
“"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.”
“As leopard feels at home with leopard.”
“It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.”

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