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Simple Life Quotes

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

"The Old Left". New York Times Magazine Interview, www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

"Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.2

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.21, Oxford University Press

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.178