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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. — Virgil · 29 BCThis was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these. — Horace · 30 BC