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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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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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The greatest part of a writers time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. – Samuel Johnson

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

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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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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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People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. – George William Russell

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