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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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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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[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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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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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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If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. – David Horowitz

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