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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 28 |
| AUTHOR: | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, De Officiis, book 1, chapter 42, Cicero’s Three Books of Offices, or Moral Duties, trans. Cyrus R. Edmonds, p. 73 (1873). |
| SUBJECTS: | Agriculture |
| WORKS: | Cicero Collection |
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