“My life in the country did at least teach nle this —that the really stimulating things were the quiet, natural things, and the really -wearisome things were the noisy, unnatural things (writes Beverley Nioholls in the “London Magazine”). Among my discoveries I may mention these: That it 'was more exciting to stand still than to dance, that silence was |more-elo-quent than speech, that pure water was moire stimulating than any wine, that fresh air was more intoxicating than cigarette smoke, that sunlight was more subtle than electric light; that the slow and -simple observations of the average farmer were more wise than the most sparkling epigrams of the latest wit. -
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 40034, 3 December 1929, Page 1
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