There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried…
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
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Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History, ch. 2 (1945)
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