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It is this that has led to the outcry -- much more prevalent a generation ago than now -- against "book-farming."
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He was not a reader, and looked with undisguised suspicion on book-farming.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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There has been more of intelligent care than luck in bringing up this boy Alf. I believe in book-farming as much as any one, but a successful farmer could not be made by books only; nor could I ever learn to be a skilful physician from books, although all the horses on your place could not haul the medical literature extant.
Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Then will begin all the improvements of book-farming.
He Fell in Love with His Wife Edward Payson Roe 1863
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