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The poor man’s … household gods are of flesh and blood, with no alloy of silver, gold, or precious stone; he has no property but in the affections of his own heart; and when they endear bare floors and walls, despite of rags and toil and scanty fare, that man has his love of home from God, and his rude hut becomes a solemn place.
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© 1996 Brian Green
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Green, B. (1996). The Dimensions of Home. In: Hardy’s Lyrics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376779_10
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