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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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"Yes, we wanted to come back to our home town and we prayed daily for peace to return. I feel very happy to be back. There's no place like home."

From BBC Feb. 17, 2023

"There's no place like home, that's very simple," said Nagausaukula.

From Reuters Jul. 25, 2022

There’s no place like home for the holidays — except for the Knicks, who are a dismal 6-11 on their court.

From Seattle Times Dec. 24, 2021

There’s no place like home — a funeral home, that is — in the edgy new animated comedy “Teenage Euthanasia.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2021

But it is wonderful how people can settle down to anything; an hour later I found the twenty-five of them comfortably tucked in for the night, crooning unanimously, "There's no place like home!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman

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