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Updated: May 11, 2025
Very often, as his hay-knife crunched down among the sweet-smelling grassy stems, he would survey mankind and say to himself: "Here and everywhere be folk dying before their time like frosted leaves, though wanted by their families, the country, and the world; while I, an outcast, an encumberer of the ground, wanted by nobody, and despised by all, live on against my will!"
The scales fell from her eyes, and the repentant woman knew that her life had been a failure. "'It is better so, Wilfred, she said to me, just before she died. 'I have been only 'an encumberer of the ground. I can be better spared than others, for my life has benefited nobody. There will be few to miss me. "'Oh, Gracia! I exclaimed, shocked at the thought.
Each is a useless encumberer of the earth, and the sooner dead the better. Each is a discredit to the human race, already discreditable enough, God knows. Teetotalism does not make for human happiness; it makes for the dull, idiotic happiness of the barnyard.
"My head is bowed with meditation and prayer, rather than with fatigue. Indeed, it is others who do the harassing manual labor, while I simply direct and instruct. Sometimes I think I am an encumberer in the vineyard, lazily using brain instead of hand."
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