No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However… — Charles Dudley Warner
No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.

