Peace at the hearth, peace on earth.
From Before We Were Young, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The Dunhams had the whole family in today, cars up on the lawn, and by four o'clock the father and the oldest boy were out on the porch not speaking while the rest of them laughed inside. I sat on the gutter and listened to him breathe. Years ago I thought the big quarrels were the ones with countries in them, and that a house was where people went to recover from the world; I had it backwards, or at least sideways. Peace at the hearth, peace on earth, and I do not know which way the sentence runs, whether the small one makes the large one or only rehearses it. The boy went back in first. Nobody indoors seemed to notice he had been gone, which may be its own kind of settlement.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
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