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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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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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

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