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I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses."

James Madison

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Nothing can be more of an assault on a person’s dignity than the inability to find work & gainful employment.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

cicero

— Book 1, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.

— Cicero, De Oficiis (44 BC), Book 1, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73.

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For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture .

— Book 1, section 42. Translation by Cyrus R. Edmonds (1873), p. 73.

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