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It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

It was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Washington Irving
Children, Home, Parent
Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving
Husband, Home, Men
Washington Irving (1835). “The Beauties”, p.15

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

Washington Irving
Home, Affection, Rallying

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Washington Irving
Home, Parent, Feelings
Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq”, p.187

There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

Washington Irving
Morning, Book, Home
Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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