When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have … - John Ruskin

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Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U. S. for a century.

John Ruskin

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both. . . Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

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