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Nil aon tintean mar do thintean fein. There is no fireside like your own fireside.

(Irish proverb)

A man in a distant field, no hearthfires near, will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day: so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself ...

(The Odyssey, Book Five, lines 487–90, trans. Robert Fitzgerald)