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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Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal vice and cardinal folly; and I am in continual danger, when in company, of being led an ignis fatuus chase by it. – John Adams

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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. – John Adams

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

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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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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. – Muriel Rukeyser

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We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally. – Hillary Clinton

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Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests. – Audre Lorde

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Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. – Ray Bradbury

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