A friend sent me a link to a book entitled, "The Joys of Living" by Orison Swett Marden and I was struck by this story. "An old farmer was asked at a meeting of the Agricultural Congress to give his opinion on the best slope of land for the raising of a particular kind of fruit. 'It does not make so much difference' said the old man, 'about the slope of the land as the slope of the man.' Many a farmer who has the right slope makes a good living and gets a competence on very poor soil, while the farmer who does not slope the right way barely exists on the richest soil."
You can copy and paste the link to the site here. I've just started but I love the way the author thinks.
books.google.com/books?id=49INAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA372&lpg=PA372&dq=Orison+Swett+Marden+%2B+keep+a+pleasure+book+Woman's+Home+Companion&source=bl&ots=8sGWji9yYm&sig=8_zMHJe2AZ6_kW28S86dE3W1kDc&hl=en&ei=ZJjZTZ_VEImosAO9suCFDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=true
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