“The largest room in the world is the room for improvement”

“The largest room in the world, is the ‘room for improvement’” is an aphorism that has been cited in print since at least 1862. The authorship of the saying is unknown.
   
 
25 December 1862, Farmer’s Cabinet (Amherst, NH), pg. 2, col. 4:
Somebody has discovered that the largest room in the world, is the “room for improvement.”
 
12 February 1863, Worthington (IN) Gazette, pg. 4,col. 3:
The largest room in the world is the “room for improvement.”
 
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March 1863, Ballou’s Dollar Monthly Magazine, “Record of the Times,” pg. 261, col. 2:
Somebody has discovered that the largest room in the world is the “room for improvement.”
 
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July 1880, The Sunday-School World, pg. 196, col. 1:
Mr. Schauffler began with a humorous allusion to a witticism which had “gone the rounds” of the papers, to the effect that “the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”
 
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11 July 1911, Power, pg. 43, col. 1:
THE biggest room in the world is the room for improvement; it knows no limits; it reaches from the guest room in the White House to the ash pile in the yard of the isolated one-unit plant, from the Government official to the President, from the chief to the boy who sweeps up. There is always room and there always will be. Perfection is never reached in anything.
 
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