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Suppose two or three of you had been at the pains to break up a piece of rough land and sow it with wheat: would you let it lie waste because you could not agree what sort of a fence to make?
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gutenberg.orgCalvin Coolidge: “Suppose two or three of you had been at the pains to break up a piece of rough land and sow it with wheat: would you let…”
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Coolidge uses a farming analogy to illustrate the importance of practical solutions over endless debate.
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