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There's no place like home

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  1. Home is the best of all places. This saying comes from the song “Home, Sweet Home.”


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No matter how nice your hotel, meals and ride home are, she said, there’s no place like home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

As artists and writers know all too well, there’s no place like home for the holidays, with tensions simmering beneath the tinseled surface of foil-wrapped presents and forced cheer.

From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022

What if there's no place like home — not because it's best, but because it's simply everything?

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2022

It may be the movie’s most bittersweet allusion, an echo of another fairy tale that knows there’s no place like home.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

"Be it ever so humble," she said gaily, "there's no place like home!"

From The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith by Livingstone, W.P.

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