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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a bo

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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[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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Anybody can be good in the country. – Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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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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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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