“Griješi onaj koji misli da u gradu sretno živi. Neka do|e ovamo, ovo mjesto će mu nuditi prave užitke.”
“Svojim dominantnim položajem, svojom arhitekturom i vrtovima, ljetnikovci su se izdigli iznad puke gospodarske funkcije. Neosporno su mnogi bili i središta agrarne djelatnosti no uz svu početnu svrhovitost i neophodnu materijalnu podlogu, u sve intenzivnijoj njihovoj izgradnji sudjelovali su i literarni i filozofski i estetski poticaji. Izrasli su, naime, na svjetonazoru, da bavljenje zemljoposjedom nije sramota, štoviše da obrada zemlje pa i osobni rad na njoj imaju uzvišeni moralni smisao.”
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“Mistaken is he who thinks that life in the city is a happy one. Let him come here, this place will provide him with true pleasures.”
“With their dominant position, architecture and gardens, the summer residences placed themselves above the mere farming function. Undoubtedly, many of them were also centres of agriculture, but along with all their starting purposefulness and necessary material base, literary, philosophical and aesthetic impulses participated in their ever intensive construction. They emerged on the philosophy that farming is nothing shameful. Indeed, cultivating the land and even personal farming has an exalted moral sense.”
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