Quote by George Crabbe
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other far

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. – George Crabbe

Other quotes by George Crabbe

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at lifes outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. – George Crabbe

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Courage
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Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: Ive done it from my youth. – George Crabbe

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Habits
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Farming
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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

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Farming

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. – Thomas Jefferson

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Farming

The great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms, and grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. – William Jennings Bryan

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Farming

The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men. – R. Pocock

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Farming

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You watch television and see whats going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothings going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress. – Steve Wynn

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