"I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last."

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When the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

— Henry David Thoreau