Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

The line compresses a bleakly democratic observation: the so‑called “deadly sins” are not confined to villains or to public life but are ordinary features of domestic existence. By placing pride, avarice, and envy “in every home,” Wilder suggests that moral struggle is intimate and routine—woven into family relations, status anxieties, and the quiet comparisons people make with neighbors and kin. The statement can read as both indictment and leveling truth: it punctures idealized images of the household while also implying that fallibility is universal, and therefore a basis for humility and compassion rather than self-righteous judgment.