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Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play escaping the city heat.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The chicken is the country's but the city eats it.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

The town is man's world but this (country life) is of God.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining but they make them artificial.

William Cowper said that God made the country, and man made the town. If it was the opposite, there would be no country; because town can be created from the country but the country cannot be created from the town!

Countries, states, cities, corporations and laws are all words on paper.