That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
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Be not simply good - be good for something.
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit not a fossil earth, but a living earth compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.
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For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
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