CONTENTS
The dodecalogue of a Gypsy
Author: Palamas Kostis (1859-1943)
Year: 1907
(Maxims for peasants)
PEASANT, country-dweller, kulak, moujik, ryot, paysan, serf, villein, tiller of the soil, son of the soil, yeoman, yokel, hind, chawbacon, clod, rustic, Hodge, swain, churl, peon, bogtrotter, hayseed, hick, backwoodsman, redneck, boschlooper, boor, bumpkin, country cousin, provincial, hillbilly, village idiot...
- Roget's Thesaurus
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!
- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Neither house nor hut;
A ruin suffices me.
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