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Home sweet home:

Mid pleasures and palaces
Though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble,
There's no place like home.
A charm from the skies
Seems to hallow us there,
Which seek thro' the world,
Is ne'er met with elsewhere.
Home,...

Traditional Songs

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A small cottage wherein laughter lives is worth more than a castle full of tears.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about laughter, tears

Better lady in a cottage than serving-woman in a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings about woman

Love lives in cottages as well as in court.

Proverbs and old sayings English about love

Flatterers haunt not cottages.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Love can turn a cottage into a golden palace.

Proverbs and old sayings German about love

I will not change a cottage in possession for a kingdom in reversion.

Proverbs and old sayings German about change

It is better to be a master in a cottage than servant in a castle.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Love lives in palaces as well as in thatched cottages.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about love

Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Better joy in a cottage than sorrow in a palace.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about joy, sadness

Better my own cottage, than the palace of another.

Proverbs and old sayings Welsh

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