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E. B. White

"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."

E. B. White, American Writer
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

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