The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
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I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
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Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.
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