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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

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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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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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

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Country

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. – William Hazlitt, Table Talk

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Country
[T]here is no practice… which tends to renovate the constitution, than a temporary retirement to the country… – John Sinclair, The Code of Health and Longevity, c.1815

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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

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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, its fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; its a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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