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Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own.
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own.
Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
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- Samuel Johnson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1746 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1709–1784)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 9 · printed citation: Johnson · subject: Agriculture
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