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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
Farming and Farmers
Elwyn Brooks White

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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Farming and Farmers
Henry David Thoreau

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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
Farming and Farmers
Edgar Watson Howe

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It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
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Cato The Elder

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Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
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Henri Alain

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Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up.
Farming and Farmers
Lynwood L. Giacomini

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No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
Farming and Farmers
H. L. Mencken

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Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
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George Crabbe

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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Farming and Farmers
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer.
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Eugene F. Ware

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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
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R. Pocock

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The master's eye is the best fertilizer.
Farming and Farmers
Pliny The Elder

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun