To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not b…

Wendell Berry
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To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. ✨ Wendell Berry (2003). The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, p.312, Counterpoint
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