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To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

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Working in the garden gives me something beyond the enjoyment of the senses. It gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.

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the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

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Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

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