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Life on a farm
is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make
an ox in two days.
-- Henri Alain
There is, of
course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged
homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is
there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is
most unbearable.
-- Fawn M. Brodie
1915-1981, American
Biographer
There are only
three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over
in a tractor, and old age.
-- Bill Bryson
American Author
It is thus
with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in
all your work.
-- Cato The Elder
BC 234-149, Roman Statesman,
Orator
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Our farmers
round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers,
flourish and complain.
-- George Crabbe
1754-1832, British Clergyman,
Poet
Farming looks
mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a
thousand miles from the corn field.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
1890-1969, Thirty-fourth
President of the USA
The first
farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the
possession and use of land.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
There seem to
be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first
is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered
neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is
generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only
honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed
thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle,
wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his
innocent life and his virtuous industry.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
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