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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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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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