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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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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. – John Adams

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I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom. – John Adams

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Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. – John Adams

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

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

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Heres what I see all across this great city – people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams. – Thomas Menino

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With renunciation life begins. – Amelia E. Barr

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. – George Bernard Shaw

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Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. – Monica Edwards

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