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Quote by John Adams
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little

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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There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. – John Adams

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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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

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

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