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To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

— Charles Dudley Warner My Summer in a Garden (1870)

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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!

My Summer in a Garden (1870)

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Studies in the South and West with Comments on Canada (1889)

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

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A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

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