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Quote by Samuel Johnson
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness

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 any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson

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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 suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. – Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes

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

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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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