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V. "The man who cannot say no, never gets the oppor- 

 tunity to say yes." 



VI. "Be just and generous, and the world sends you just 

 and generous companions and friends." 



VII. "Flowers always make people better, happier, and 

 more hopeful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the 

 soul." 



VIII. "The farm is the foundation of our best manhood 

 and womanhood, the true hope and strength and glory of 

 the world." 



IX. "The greatest happiness in the world is to make 

 others happy; the next greatest is to make them think." 



X. "I shall be content if because of me there shall be 

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better fruits and fairer flowers." 



XI. "It is very natural that we should associate flowers 

 and children, as they are so much alike in many respects, 

 and should in some points be treated alike." 



XII. "Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, 

 water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild 

 strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb, brooks to 

 wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, vari- 

 ous animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, 

 snakes, huckleberries, and hornets; and any child who has 

 been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part 

 of his education." 



