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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.

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To every house a garden is attached, and none of the misery of big cities is to be seen.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin describes the positive living conditions in rural areas, contrasting them with urban misery.

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