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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It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger. – Samuel Johnson

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Strangers
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Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. – Samuel Johnson

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – 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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Country
[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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Country

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

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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 still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors. – Joaquin Phoenix

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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – Galileo Galilei

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I used to sit near Marilyn Monroe in the Actors Studio. Shed get dressed up because that was her identity. Sad. Those cameras wouldnt leave her alone. She didnt know where to hide. – Doris Roberts

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Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. – John Gay