A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense o…

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ✨ E. B. White (2011). In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, p.109, Cornell University Press
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. ✨ E. B. White (2011). In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, p.109, Cornell University Press

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