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isfied with what I can get. But I won't do 

 it! Maybe I shan't get what I want, but it 

 won't be because I've slackened up in my ideas. 

 There'll be no compromise!" 



That's the way to make a farm. You can 

 see that I shouldn't have helped that man a 

 mite by putting my goats upon him. If a 

 goat isn't a compromise, I don't know what 

 you'd call him. 



But here's a point that every farmer must 

 face and get used to. Whatever he's aiming 

 at, if it's anything worth being called a real 

 aim, he'll have to accept compromises and 

 nothing else by way of results. If he gets all 

 of what he's trying for, that simply means he 

 isn't trying hard enough. Purpose must al- 

 ways be set ahead of actual achievement. To 

 be quite content, smugly satisfied, with results 

 is the last and worst compromise of all. That's 

 the slowing down of purpose my friend was 

 talking about. 



Look here: How can any farmer afford to 

 be perfectly satisfied with any result, even 

 though it break all records, when he doesn't 

 know how much better he may do? Right on 

 the face of the proposition, there's no limit to 

 possible performance on a bit of good soil. 



