To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a so…

Mark Twain
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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. ✨ Mark Twain (2004). The Letters of Mark Twain, p.251, 1st World Publishing
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