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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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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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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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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

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

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Country

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. – John Adams

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I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. – Leonardo da Vinci

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Physiological response to thinking and to pain is the same; and man is not given to hurting himself. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Women who miscalculate are called mothers. – Abigail Van Buren

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We pay when old for the excesses of youth. – J. B. Priestley

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