Greatest Number

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    The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, of men in distant countries, and in past times.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)