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"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."

"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."

"The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land."

"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."

"The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes."
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"Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there."

"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."
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"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."

"If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?"
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"Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead."

"I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell."

"If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again."

"But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late."

"Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all."
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