"Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it."

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

“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”

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

“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”

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

“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”

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1991–2014

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— Steve Stewart-Williams

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1960

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