Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they ar…

Henry David Thoreau
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2014). Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown, p.121, Graphic Arts Books
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