The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.393, Penguin
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