Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him who goes to market for his god as it is on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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