Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a c…

Abraham Lincoln
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Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms. ✨ Abraham Lincoln (2009). Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings, p.328, Library of America
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