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... sure of the adjustment of the harness , I drove with peculiar care to save the horses . With such simple details of the work in hand I had found it my joy to occupy my mind . Up to that moment the most important things in the world had ...
... sure of the adjustment of the harness , I drove with peculiar care to save the horses . With such simple details of the work in hand I had found it my joy to occupy my mind . Up to that moment the most important things in the world had ...
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... sure conclusions . Stern judgments that will be deceived by no symbols ! Thus I have delighted , secretly , in calling myself an unlimited farmer , and I make this confession in answer to the inner and truthful demand of the soul that ...
... sure conclusions . Stern judgments that will be deceived by no symbols ! Thus I have delighted , secretly , in calling myself an unlimited farmer , and I make this confession in answer to the inner and truthful demand of the soul that ...
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... sure I was not playing truant . There are good and great words in a deed . One of them I brought away with me from the conference , a very fine , big one , which I love to have out now and again to remind me of the really serious things ...
... sure I was not playing truant . There are good and great words in a deed . One of them I brought away with me from the conference , a very fine , big one , which I love to have out now and again to remind me of the really serious things ...
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... sure , of delving a little more in the same rich mine of humour . " Horace , " I said , looking him straight in the eye , " did you call me an - Agriculturist ! " I have rarely seen a man so pitifully confused as Horace was at that ...
... sure , of delving a little more in the same rich mine of humour . " Horace , " I said , looking him straight in the eye , " did you call me an - Agriculturist ! " I have rarely seen a man so pitifully confused as Horace was at that ...
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... sure sign upon their faces . I said to myself , Why should any man fence himself in ? And why hope to enlarge one's world by the creeping acquisi- tion of a few acres to his farm ? I thought of the old scientist , who , laying his hand ...
... sure sign upon their faces . I said to myself , Why should any man fence himself in ? And why hope to enlarge one's world by the creeping acquisi- tion of a few acres to his farm ? I thought of the old scientist , who , laying his hand ...
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