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Affection, the motive of an economy that lasts, is personal or it is nothing
Drawn from what Wendell Berry said
What Wendell Berry actually said
- Wendell Berry Farmer, poet and essayist (1934 to 2026) whose…
But the risk, I think, is only that affection is personal. If it is not personal, it is nothing
Where this was said
↗It All Turns on Affection (2012 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities)neh.gov
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