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Classical antiquity3 quotes
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. — Cicero · 44 BCHappy the man who, far away from business, like the race of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay. — Horace · 30 BCO farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear. — Virgil · 29 BC