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The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in it malice.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.
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