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“You burn a man’s pickup, and he’s ready for war.”
John Grisham
Revenge
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Conflict
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Human Nature
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Rural Life
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Social Dynamics
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“I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.”
John Grisham
Childhood
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Innocence
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Sexuality
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Rural Life
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Coming-of-age
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“Percy had never owned a ball or a glove or a bat, had never played catch with his dad, had never dreamed of beating the Yankee. In fact he'd probably never dreamed of leaving the cotton patch. That thought was almost overwhelming.”
John Grisham
Poverty
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Childhood
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Dreams
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Social Inequality
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Rural Life
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“If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.”
Thomas Jefferson
Science
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Education
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Priorities
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Rural Life
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Personal Advice
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“The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Crime
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Appearances
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Deception
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Rural Life
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Hidden Evil
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“Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with.”
Harper Lee
Pace
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Respect Boundaries
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Patience
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Independence
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Rural Life
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Perseverance
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“Raveloe was a village where many of the old echoes lingered, undrowned by new voices. Not that it was one of those barren parishes lying on the outskirts of civilization – inhabited by meagre sheep and thinly-scattered shepherds: on the contrary, it lay in the rich central plain of what we are pleased to call Merry England, and.”
George Eliot
Village Life
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Rich History
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Cultural Heritage
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Rural Life
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Traditional Values
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Timeless Beauty
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“Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.”
Roald Dahl
Calm Work
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Rural Life
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Stress Relief
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Somerset
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Life
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Work
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“Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.”
Charles Dickens
Passion
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Cows
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Peace
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Simplicity
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Rural Life
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“I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm.”
Theodore Roosevelt
Lifestyle
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Agriculture
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Appreciation
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Rural Life
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Beauty
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