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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. - [Boyhood] Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire. - [Goodness] Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. - [Conversation] Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit. - [Friends] Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments. - [Public Opinion] Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. - [Simplicity] The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different. - [Tomorrow] The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - [Gifts] The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. - [Taxation] There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. - [Nation] We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. - [Conformity] What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back, with a hinge in it. - [Gardens] Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it. - My Summer in a Garden (Preliminary) [Agriculture]
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