Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands h…

Wendell Berry
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Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato ✨ Wendell Berry (2003). The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, p.85, Counterpoint
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