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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations
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"The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject"

- William Falconer

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