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"Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!

Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade

To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,

Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy

To kings that fear their subjects' treachery!"

3 King Henry VI.

"When I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights

I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible

entertainment which the country offers."

—THOREAU.

"Life is sweet, brother. … There's night and day, brother,

both sweet things; sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet

things; there's likewise the wind on the heath. Life is very

sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"

—BORROW: Jasper Petulengro.