The Belovéd Vagabond by William J Locke (motivational books for men TXT) 📖
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He yawned. I protested. It was barely nine o'clock.
"It is bedtime," said Paragot. "We have to get up at five."
"Good Heavens, Master," said I, "why these unearthly hours?"
He laughed and quoted Candide.
"Il faut cultiver notre jardin."
"No," said the drowsy Blanquette at last understanding the conversation, "we have to cut the rest of the corn."
"It's all the same, my dear," said Paragot tenderly. "We were talking philosophy. Philosophy merely means the love of wisdom. And all that the wisdom of all the ages can tell us, is summed up in the last words of one of the wisest books that ever was written: 'We must cultivate our garden.'"
But how my dear erratic master has managed for years and years to cultivate the farm of La Haye and to bring up my godson in the fear of the Lord and the practice of land surveying is a proof that the late Mr. Matthew Arnold was hopelessly wrong in his categorical declaration that miracles do not happen.
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