"Every fruit or berry has its mission to man hidden away within it.  Therefore, set out a strawberry bed, if you haven't got one. . .Plant currants. . .Border the fence with raspberries.  Walk around your place during the early spring days, and make a mental inventory of every spot where you can stick in a fruit tree or a berry bush.  Plant something."

~ From a nineteenth-century health guide, as quoted in The Great Patent Medicine Era, by Adelaide Hechtlinger.

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"In my early years I read very hard.  It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now."

~ Boswell's Life of Johnston, vol. i, p. 56. 20 July 1763