Enters Mortals

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    Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer’s profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man’s home, could suggest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)