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I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. -

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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Other Quotes from
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When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! – Henri Rousseau

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Country

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave, 1945

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Country

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. – George William Russell

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Country

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. – Charles Dickens

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Country

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Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. – Janet Lane

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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not. – Jerry Saltz

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You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice. – Author Unknown

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We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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