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«When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.»
Author: Confucius | Keywords: pedant, pedants, rustic
«He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Living | Keywords: crosses, postpones, run out, rustic
«There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet»
«A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.»
Author: Max Beerbohm (Wit, Writer) | Keywords: rustic, slum
«Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.»