David Simple

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“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)